Elephant Fury
{{Short description|1943 film}}
{{Infobox film
| name = Elephant Fury
| image = Elephant Fury (film poster).jpg
| caption =
| director = Harry Piel
| producer =
| writer = {{ubl|Erwin Biswanger|Erwin Kreker|Alexander Lix|Harry Piel}}
| narrator =
| starring = {{ubl|Harry Piel|Hans Zesch-Ballot|Dorothea Wieck}}
| music = {{ubl|Werner Bochmann|Fritz Wenneis}}
| cinematography = {{ubl|Willi Peter Block|E.W. Fiedler|Karl Puth|Erich Schmidtke|Klaus von Rautenfeld}}
| editing = Hilde Grebner
| studio ={{ubl|Ariel Film|Fabrikation Deutscher Filme}}
| distributor = UFA
| released = {{Film date|1953|10|13|df=yes}}
| runtime = 100 minutes
| country = West Germany
| language = German
| budget =
| gross =
}}
Elephant Fury ({{langx|de|Gesprengte Gitter}}) is a 1953 West German drama war film directed by and starring Harry Piel.Rentschler p.283 It also features Herbert A.E. Bohme, Hans Zesch-Ballot and Dorothea Wieck. The film had a troubled production history. Originally made between 1940 and 1943 under the title of Panic, it faced censorship problems. Following the end of the Second World War, Piel recovered the negative which had fallen into the hands of the occupying Soviet forces. He re-shot some scenes, and the film was eventually released more than a decade after it had first begun shooting.
Synopsis
During the Second World War, an air raid on a zoo leads to the animals escaping across the city.
Cast
- Harry Piel as Großtierfänger Peter Volker
- Herbert A.E. Böhme as Mitarbeiter Fritz Kröger
- Hans Zesch-Ballot as Zoodirektor Thiele
- Dorothea Wieck as Hella Thiele
- Wilhelm P. Krüger as Farmer A. R. Brinkmann
- Ruth Eweler as Christa Brinkmann
- Fritz Hoopts as Farmer H. Sander
- Maria Krahn as Farmerin Küppers
- Julius Riedmueller as Affenwärter Alois Leitner
- Julius Frey as Elefantenwärter F. Müller
- L. Krüger-Roger as Raubtierwärter J. Huber
- Beppo Brem as Tiergartenbesucher während eines Fliegerangriffs
- Peter Strunk as Tierwärter Becker
- Karl Hellmer
- Maria Hofen
- Eva Klein-Donath
- Joe Münch-Harris
- Albert Parsen
- Karl-Heinz Peters
- Rudolf Vogel
References
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Bibliography
- Rentschler, Eric. The Ministry of Illusion: Nazi Cinema and Its Afterlife. Harvard University Press, 1996.
External links
- {{IMDb title|0035933}}
Category:Banned films in Nazi Germany
Category:German war drama films
Category:1950s German-language films
Category:Films directed by Harry Piel
Category:World War II films made in wartime
Category:Films set on the home front during World War II
Category:German black-and-white films
Category:1940s war drama films
Category:1950s war drama films
Category:Films scored by Werner Bochmann
Category:Films scored by Fritz Wenneis
Category:German-language war films
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