Espionage (1955 film)

1955 film

Espionage

Directed by| Franz Antel
Written by| Alexander Lernet-Holenia
Kurt Nachmann
Produced by| Franz Hoffmann
Erich von Neusser
Starring| Ewald Balser
Barbara Rütting
Gerhard Riedmann
Cinematography| Hanns Matula
Hans Heinz Theyer
Edited by| Arnfried Heyne
Music by| Willy Schmidt-Gentner

Production
companies

Hope Film
Neusser-Film

Distributed by| Sascha Film
UFA (W. Germany)

Release date

* 18 April 1955 (1955-04-18)

Running time

| 100 minutes
Country| Austria
Language| German

Espionage (German: Spionage) is a 1955 Austrian historical spy drama film directed by Franz Antel and starring Ewald Balser, Barbara Rütting and Gerhard Riedmann.[1] It was shot at the Sievering Studios and on location in Vienna. The film's sets were designed by the art director Felix Smetana. It was based on the real story of Alfred Redl, an officer serving with Austrian Military Intelligence who was also secretly spying for the hostile Russian Empire before the First World War.

## Cast

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* Ewald Balser as Oberst Redl
* Barbara Rütting as Nadeschda
* Gerhard Riedmann as Hauptmann Angelis
* Oskar Werner as Leutnant Zeno von Baumgarten
* Marte Harell as Gräfin Lichtenfels
* Hannelore Bollmann as Pauline von Heymeneck
* Rudolf Forster as Chef des Generalstabes, von Heymeneck
* Attila Hörbiger as Dr. Hartmuth
* Erik Frey as Oberst Rabansky
* Heinz Moog as Baron Letten
* Karl Ehmann as Leopold, Diener bei Lichtenfels
* Hermann Erhardt as Steidl
* C.W. Fernbach as Rittmeister Weidler
* Harry Hardt as General Maximoff
* Kurt Jaggberg as Sabrenin
* Alexander Trojan as Baron Korff
* Ernst Waldbrunn as Ebinger
* Grete Sellier as Gast

## References

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1. ^ Fritsche p.256

## Bibliography

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* Fritsche, Maria. Homemade Men in Postwar Austrian Cinema: Nationhood, Genre and Masculinity. Berghahn Books, 2013.

## External links

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* Espionage at IMDb

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Films directed by Franz Antel

* No Sin on the Alpine Pastures (1950)
* Hello Porter (1952)
* Ideal Woman Sought (1952)
* The Mine Foreman (1952)
* The Emperor Waltz (1953)
* The Red Prince (1954)
* Roses from the South (1954)
* The Sweetest Fruits (1954)
* The Congress Dances (1955)
* Marriage Sanitarium (1955)
* Espionage (1955)
* Emperor's Ball (1956)
* Love, Girls and Soldiers (1958)
* Call of the Forest (1965)
* The Sweet Sins of Sexy Susan (1967)
* Sexy Susan Sins Again (1968)
* House of Pleasure (1969)
* Why Did I Ever Say Yes Twice? (1969)
* My Father, the Ape and I  (1971)
* Einer spinnt immer (1971)
* Blue Blooms the Gentian (1973)
* The Countess Died of Laughter (1973)
* Casanova & Co. (1977)
* Love Hotel in Tyrol (1978)
* Der Bockerer (1981)

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Alexander Lernet-Holenia

Prose fiction|

* I Was Jack Mortimer (1933)
* The Standard (1934)
* Baron Bagge (1936)
* Mars in Aries (1941)
* Twentieth of July (1947)
* The Count of Saint Germain (1948)
* Count Luna (1955)

Screenplays|

* The Dismissal (1942)
* The Great Love (1942)
* On Resonant Shores (1948)
* Espionage (1955)

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