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{{Infobox film<br />
| name = Rommel Calls Cairo<br />
| image = Rommel Calls Cairo.jpg<br />
| caption =<br />
| director = [[Wolfgang Schleif]]<br />
| producer = <br />
| writer = {{ubl|[[John Eppler]] (novel)|[[K.H. Turner]]|[[Heinz Oskar Wuttig]]}}<br />
| narrator =<br />
| starring = {{ubl|[[Adrian Hoven]]|[[Elisabeth Müller]]|[[Peter van Eyck]]}}<br />
| music = [[Wolfram Röhrig]]<br />
| cinematography = [[Kurt Grigoleit]]<br />
| editing = [[Hermann Ludwig]]<br />
| studio = Omega Film <br />
| distributor = Neue Filmverleih <br />
| released = {{Film date|1959|02|19|df=y}}<br />
| runtime = 105 minutes<br />
| country = West Germany<br />
| language = [[German language|German]]<br />
| budget =<br />
| gross =<br />
}}<br />
'''''Rommel Calls Cairo''''' ({{lang-de|'''Rommel ruft Kairo'''}}) is a 1959 West German [[war film|war]] [[thriller film]] directed by [[Wolfgang Schleif]] and starring [[Adrian Hoven]], [[Elisabeth Müller]] and [[Peter van Eyck]].<ref>Davidson & Hake p. 54</ref> It is based on [[Operation Salam|a real incident]] from the [[North African Campaign]] during the [[Second World War]].<br />
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The film's sets were designed by the [[art director]]s [[Ludwig Reiber]] and [[Hans Strobel]]. It was shot [[location filming|on location]] in [[Egypt]].<br />
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Van Eyck reprised his role as [[László Almásy]] in the British film ''[[Foxhole in Cairo]]'', which was released the following year.<br />
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==Cast==<br />
* [[Adrian Hoven]] as [[Johannes Eppler|Capt. Johannes Eppler, alias Hussein Gafaar]]<br />
* [[Elisabeth Müller]] as Lt. Kay Morrison<br />
* [[Peter van Eyck]] as [[László Almásy|Capt. Graf von Almassy]]<br />
* [[Paul Klinger]] as Field Marshal [[Erwin Rommel]]<br />
* [[Leila Iman]] as Amina<br />
* [[Herbert Tiede]] as Col. Robertson<br />
* [[Ernst Reinhold]] as Sandy<br />
* [[Wolf Ackva]] as Maj. Smith<br />
* [[Til Kiwe]] as Amis<br />
* [[Saliman]] as Achmed<br />
* [[Albert Hehn]] as Lüdinghausen<br />
* [[Horst Uhse]] as Schmitz<br />
* [[Siegfried Dornbusch]] as Schulze<br />
* [[Gustl Weishappel]] as Gruber<br />
* [[Manfred Andrae]] as Oberfeldwebel<br />
* [[Werner Stock]] as Abele<br />
* [[Heinz Lausch]]<br />
* [[Lili Schoenborn-Anspach]]<br />
* [[Panos Papadopulos]] as Sharani<br />
* [[Karin Hauck]] as Leila<br />
* [[Heinz Simon]] as Bachmann<br />
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== References ==<br />
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==Bibliography==<br />
* Davidson, John & Hake, Sabine. ''Framing the Fifties: Cinema in a Divided Germany''. Berghahn Books, 2007.<br />
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== External links ==<br />
* {{IMDb title|0052145}}<br />
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[[Category:Films directed by Wolfgang Schleif]]<br />
[[Category:North African campaign films]]<br />
[[Category:World War II spy films]]<br />
[[Category:German multilingual films]]<br />
[[Category:1950s multilingual films]]<br />
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