The Call of Africa

The Call of Africa
Directed by César Fernández Ardavín
Written by César Fernández Ardavín
Music by Jesús García Leoz
Cinematography Juan Mariné
Edited by Magdalena Pulido
Production
company
Hesperia Films
Distributed by Hesperia Films
Release dates
21 May 1952
Running time
109 minutes
Country Spain
Language Spanish

The Call of Africa (Spanish: La llamada de África) is a 1952 Spanish war film directed by César Fernández Ardavín.[1] It is set in 1940 in Spanish Morocco. German agents operating out of Vichy-controlled Mauritania attempt to sabotage a strategic Spanish airstrip. The Spanish and their native Moroccan allies are able to thwart this. The film's hero a Spanish colonial army officer, enters into a relationship with a Berber princess. It was made at a time when Spain's dicator General Franco was trying to forge a closer relationship with the Arab states of the Middle East and the film promotes a concept of the "blood brotherhood" that links the Spanish and Moroccans.[2]

Cast

References

  1. Bentley p.128
  2. Passerini, Labanyi & Diehl p.132

Bibliography

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