Rommel Calls Cairo

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.^[1] It is based on a real incident from the North African Campaign during the Second World War.

Rommel Calls Cairo
Directed by	Wolfgang Schleif
Written by	John Eppler (novel) K.H. Turner Heinz Oskar Wuttig
Starring	Adrian Hoven Elisabeth Müller Peter van Eyck
Cinematography	Kurt Grigoleit
Edited by	Hermann Ludwig
Music by	Wolfram Röhrig
Production company	Omega Film
Distributed by	Neue Filmverleih
Release date	19 February 1959 (1959-02-19)
Running time	105 minutes
Country	West Germany
Language	German

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.

Cast

• Adrian Hoven as Capt. Johannes Eppler, alias Hussein Gafaar
• Elisabeth Müller as Lt. Kay Morrison
• Peter van Eyck as Capt. Graf von Almassy
• Paul Klinger as Field Marshal Erwin Rommel
• Leila Iman as Amina
• Herbert Tiede as Col. Robertson
• Ernst Reinhold as Sandy
• Wolf Ackva as Maj. Smith
• Til Kiwe as Amis
• Saliman as Achmed
• Albert Hehn as Lüdinghausen
• Horst Uhse as Schmitz
• Siegfried Dornbusch as Schulze
• Gustl Weishappel as Gruber
• Manfred Andrae as Oberfeldwebel
• Werner Stock as Abele
• Heinz Lausch
• Lili Schoenborn-Anspach
• Panos Papadopulos as Sharani
• Karin Hauck as Leila
• Heinz Simon as Bachmann