Congo Express (film)

Congo Express (German: Kongo-Express) is a 1939 German adventure film directed by Eduard von Borsody and starring Marianne Hoppe, Willy Birgel. and René Deltgen.^[1]

Congo Express
German film poster
German	Kongo-Express
Directed by	Eduard von Borsody
Written by	Johanna Sibelius Eduard von Borsody Ernst von Salomon
Produced by	Georg Witt
Starring	Marianne Hoppe Willy Birgel René Deltgen
Cinematography	Igor Oberberg
Edited by	Lisbeth Neumann
Music by	Werner Bochmann
Production company	UFA
Distributed by	UFA
Release date	15 December 1939 (1939-12-15)
Running time	88 minutes
Country	Germany
Language	German

The film's sets were designed by the art director Franz Koehn. Location shooting took place on railway lines close to Celle.

Cast

• Marianne Hoppe as Renate Brinkmann
• Willy Birgel as Viktor Hartmann
• René Deltgen as Gaston Thibault
• Hermann Speelmans as Chagrin
• Max Gülstorff as Dr. MacPhearson
• Lotte Spira as Sister Mary
• Malte Jaeger as Pierre Dufour
• Heinz Engelmann as Raoul Burell
• Toni von Bukovics as Raoul's Mother
• Hans Adalbert Schlettow as André
• Hans Hermann Schaufuß as Mollison
• Leonie Duval [de] as Mrs. Mollison
• Willi Schur as Matthieu
• Ernst Rotmund as Tsessebe station master
• Edwin Jürgensen as Prefect
• Fritz Hube [de] as Mondome station master
• Walter Lieck [es; de] as Prefect's secretaryMayor
• Lutz Götz as Distriktkommissar
• Albert Ihle as Mayor of Lukanga
• Erik Radolf [de] as First farmer
• Manfred Meurer as Second farmer
• Hans Schneider as Third farmer
• Walter Schramm-Dunker [de] as Fourth farmer
• Kurt Hagen [de] as Fifth farmer
• Angelo Ferrari as Sixth farmer
• Louis Ralph as Seventh farmer
• Herbert Schimkat [de] as Eighth farmer
• Rudolf Vones [de] as Ninth farmer
• Hermann Meyer-Falkow [de] as Tenth farmer
• Fritz Eckert as Kolonialoffizier
• Toni Tetzlaff as Aunt Estella
• Antonie Jaeckel as First Aunt
• Maria Krahn as Second Aunt
• Anneliese Würtz [de; fr] as Third Aunt
• Luise Morland [de] as Sophie

References

1. Hake, Sabine (2009). Bock, Hans-Michael; Bergfelder, Tim (eds.). The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. New York, NY: Berghahn Books. p. 82. doi:10.2307/j.ctt1x76dm6. ISBN 978-1571816559. JSTOR j.ctt1x76dm6. S2CID 252868046.

Bibliography

• Kreimeier, Klaus (1999). The Ufa Story: A History of Germany's Greatest Film Company, 1918-1945. Translated by Kimber, Robert; Kimber, Rita. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. ISBN 0520220692.

External links

• Congo Express at IMDb