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RUNTIME
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82 minutes exactly — the "classic feature" runtime most directors aim for.
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Call Over the Air
1951 1h 22m DE
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8.0
BANGER
★8.0TMDB · 1
Crime
Synopsis
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A smugglers gang is active on the Austrian-Swiss border. Until now, no one has come to their attention. But one day a little girl gets seriously ill and needs medical attention; the young operator will forget that he has to be careful and calls for help through the secret channel.
“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”
Cast
Oskar Werner
Student
Fritz Imhoff
Uncle Otto
Ernst Waldbrunn
Makkabi
Heinz Moog
Wartanian
Hermann Erhardt
Shooter
Walter Ladengast
The patched one
Rudolf Rhomberg
Piefke
Credits
Behind the camera
- Director
- Georg C. Klaren
- Writers
- Kurt Heuser, J. Melkich
- Languages
- German
- Countries
- Germany
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Cinephile deep dive
The take
Georg C. Klaren directs. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in Germany. Dialogue in German.
Trivia
Things worth knowing
- 182 minutes exactly — the "classic feature" runtime most directors aim for.
- 275 years old — a genuine piece of film history.
- 3Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
- 4Oskar Werner and Fritz Imhoff and Ernst Waldbrunn carry the top of the cast.
- 5IMDB entry: tt0043984 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
- 6Only 1 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.
The technical file
- Runtime
- 82 min · 1h 22m
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- DE
Also by
Georg C. Klaren
Key crew
- ProducerG.W. Pabst
Release history · US
When it landed
- Theatrical1951-02-01
