Call Over the Air

CinematographyWilli SohmMusic byRoland KovacDistributed byUnion Film82 minutesCountryAustriaLanguageGerman

Call Over the Air (German: Ruf aus dem Äther) is a 1951 Austrian drama film directed by Georg C. Klaren and Georg Wilhelm Pabst and starring Oskar Werner, Lucia Scharf and Fritz Imhoff.^[1]

It was made at the Sievering Studios in Vienna with location shooting at the Dachstein in the Alps.^[2] The film's sets were designed by the art director Fritz Jüptner-Jonstorff. Although filming took place in 1948, it wasn't released for a further three years in either Austria or West Germany.

The film is regarded as lost.

Cast

• Oskar Werner as Der Student
• Lucia Scharf as Das Mädchen
• Fritz Imhoff as Onkel Otto
• Ernst Waldbrunn as Makkabi
• Otto Wögerer as Der Alte
• Heinz Moog as Wartanian
• Ekkehard Arendt as Spitz
• Fritz Berger as Maccaroni
• Hermann Erhardt as Schiesser
• Josef Gmeinder as Schlafmütze
• Walter Ladengast as Der Geflickte
• Jürg Medicus as Dechiffreur
• Karl Ranninger as Kogler
• Rudolf Rhomberg as Piefke
• Evelyn Schroll as Regine Kogler
• Toni van Eyck as Frau Kogler
• Rudolf Vones as Funker

References

Bibliography

• Fritsche, Maria. Homemade Men in Postwar Austrian Cinema: Nationhood, Genre and Masculinity. Berghahn Books, 2013.
• Eric Rentschler. The Films of G.W. Pabst: an extraterritorial cinema. Rutgers University Press, 1990.

External links

• Call Over the Air at IMDb