Attack on Baku | |
Director: | Fritz Kirchhoff |
Producer: | Hans Weidemann |
Cinematography: | Robert Baberske |
Editing: | Erich Kobler |
Music: | Alois Melichar |
Studio: | UFA |
Distributor: | UFA |
Runtime: | 91 minutes |
Country: | Germany |
Language: | German |
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. The film was shot on location in German-allied Romania, and at Babelsberg Studio in Berlin.
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.