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The Call of Africa
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Wikipedia article
'The Call of Africa' (Spanish: 'La llamada de frica') is a 1952 Spanish war film directed by Csar Fernndez Ardavn and starring Irma Torres, ngel Picazo and Grard Tichy.Bentley p.128 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.Passerini, Labanyi & Diehl p.132
Cast
In alphabetical order
* Ali Beiba Uld Abidin
* Yahadid Ben Ahmed Lehbib
* Farachi Ben Emboiric
* Embarc Ben Mohamed Lamin
* Mario Berriata
* Toms Blanco
* Fernando Heiko Vassel
* Tony Hernndez
* Jos Jaspe
* Jos Manuel Martn
* Mayrata O'Wisiedo
* ngel Picazo
* Gustavo Re
* Santiago Rivero
* Emilio Ruiz de Crdoba
* Grard Tichy
* Irma Torres
References
Bibliography
* Bentley, Bernard. 'A Companion to Spanish Cinema'. Boydell & Brewer 2008.
* Passerini, Luisa, Labanyi, Jo & Diehl, Karen. 'Europe and Love in Cinema'. Intellect Books, 2012.
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