Operation Sleeping Bag

Operation Sleeping Bag
Operation Sleeping Bag
	German film poster
German	Unternehmen Schlafsack
Directed by	Arthur Maria Rabenalt
Written by	Kurt E. Walter
Produced by	Walter Koppel; Gyula Trebitsch
Starring	Eva Ingeborg Scholz; Paul Klinger; Karlheinz Böhm
Cinematography	Albert Benitz
Edited by	Margot von Schlieffen
Music by	Bert Grund
Production; company	Real Film
Distributed by	J. Arthur Rank Film
Release date	23 September 1955;
Running time	95 minutes
Country	West Germany
Language	German

Operation Sleeping Bag (German: Unternehmen Schlafsack) is a 1955 West German comedy war film directed by Arthur Maria Rabenalt and starring Eva Ingeborg Scholz, Paul Klinger and Karlheinz Böhm.^[1]

It was shot at the Wandsbek Studios in Hamburg. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Albrecht Becker and Herbert Kirchhoff. It was distributed by the German branch of the Rank Organisation.

Plot[edit]

During the closing stages of the Second World War, a bureaucratic mistake leads to a German officer being reassigned from the dangerous Eastern Front to Berlin and a new non-existent unit.

Cast[edit]

Eva Ingeborg Scholz as Käthe Forbach
Paul Klinger as Captain Brack
Karlheinz Böhm as artillerist Gravenhorst
Kurt Meisel as first lieutenant Taut
Renate Mannhardt as Renate Kern
Bum Krüger as Oberwachtmeister Kern
Gisela Tantau as young Tänzerin Nica
Oskar Sima as Oberstleutnant Quent
Dorothea Wieck as Frau Gravenhorst
Ursula Herking as Ulla
Beppo Brem as Unteroffizier Weidlinger
Charles Regnier as Oberfeldrichter Dr. Kratz
Ernst Waldow as lieutenant colonel König
Kai Fischer as Sylvia, the actress
Willi Rose as Klawitter, the doorman
Josef Dahmen as Major Fercher
Jupp Hussels as captain
Franz Muxeneder as lance corporal Hallgruber
Reinhold Nietschmann as Herr Prill
Wolfgang Neuss as Captain Z.
Horst Breitenfeld as lance corporal Borngräber
Willy Millowitsch as sergeant Wiechert
Götz von Langheim as first lieutenant Randolph
Walter Klam as Captain Becker
Adeline Wagner as Eva
Helmut Peine as 1st officer in the OKH
Carl Voscherau as 2nd officer in the OKH
Rudolf Fenner as 3rd officer in the OKH
Benno Sterzenbach as officer of the SS
Lotte Klein as Frau Körber
Aranka Jaenke as young woman
Kurt Fuß as hotel doorman
Karl-Heinz Kreienbaum as lance corporal X
Karl Fleischer as lance corporal Y
Albert Florath as caretaker at the Music Academy
Friedrich Schütter as first lieutenant B

References[edit]

^ Goble, Alan (1999). The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter. p. 346. ISBN 3598114923.

External links[edit]

Operation Sleeping Bag at IMDb

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[1] Goble, Alan (1999). The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter. p. 346. ISBN 3598114923.

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