Rommel ruft Kairo (1959)
February 19, 1959Release Date
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The agents Eppler and Sandy are to explore enemy defense plans during World War II. On their own, they cross from the upper Nile valley to Cairo, where they are smuggled into the British secret service by the Egyptian freedom movement. With the help of the unsuspecting Englishwoman Kay, who works in the defense center of the English headquarters and has fallen in love with Eppler, they arrive at the secret plans of the Tobruk fortress. With the information Rommel succeeds in conquering the fortress considered impregnable. But the English colonel Robertson is closely on the trail of the spies.
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Rommel Calls Cairo (German: Rommel ruft Kairo) is a 1959 West German war thriller film directed by Wolfgang Schleif and starring Adrian Hoven, Elisabeth Müller and Peter van Eyck. It is based on a real incident from the North African Campaign during the Second World War.
The film's sets were designed by the art directors Ludwig Reiber and Hans Strobel. It was shot on location in Egypt.
Van Eyck reprised his role as László Almásy in the British film Foxhole in Cairo, which was released the following year.