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Attack on Baku (German: Anschlag auf Baku) is a 1942 German thriller film directed by Fritz Kirchhoff and starring Willy Fritsch, René Deltgen, and Fritz Kampers. The film was intended as anti-British propaganda during the Second World War. It is noted for its set designs by Otto Hunte, who showed a fascination for modern technology in his depiction of the oil town.[1] The film was shot on location in German-allied Romania, and at Babelsberg Studio in Berlin.

Attack on Baku
Directed by	Fritz Kirchhoff
Written by	Hans Wolfgang Hillers [de] Hans Weidemann
Produced by	Hans Weidemann
Starring	Willy Fritsch René Deltgen Fritz Kampers Hans Zesch-Ballot
Cinematography	Robert Baberske
Edited by	Erich Kobler
Music by	Alois Melichar
Production company	UFA
Distributed by	UFA
Release date	25 August 1942 (1942-08-25)
Running time	91 minutes
Country	Germany
Language	German

Synopsis

Azerbaijan, 1919. The British hope to secure control of the vast oil fields around Baku by launching a series of terrorist attacks on them. Hans Romberg, a German who is working as a security officer, battles with the British chief agent Captain Forbes and his associates.

Cast

References

Bibliography

• Hake, Sabine (2001). Popular Cinema of the Third Reich. Austin: University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-0-292-73458-6.
• Eltin, Richard A., ed. (2002). Art, Culture, and Media Under the Third Reich. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-22087-1.

External links

• Attack on Baku at IMDb

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