S.O.S. Sahara

S.O.S. Sahara
S.O.S. Sahara
Directed by	Jacques de Baroncelli
Written by	Jacques Constant; Michel Duran; Jean Martet;
Produced by	Dietrich von Theobald; Raoul Ploquin; W. Schmidt;
Starring	Charles Vanel; Jean-Pierre Aumont; Marta Labarr; Raymond Cordy;
Cinematography	Günther Rittau
Music by	Lothar Brühne
Production; company	ACE
Distributed by	ACE, UFA
Release date	17 August 1938;
Country	Germany
Language	French

S.O.S. Sahara is a 1938 German drama film directed by Jacques de Baroncelli and starring Charles Vanel, Jean-Pierre Aumont and Marta Labarr. The film was made in the French language, produced by the French subsidiary of the German studio UFA. It was shot on location in Algeria.^[1] The screenplay was based on a play Men Without a Past by Jean Martet. Martet's credit was removed from the film during the Nazi occupation of France. He later brought a court case against UFA to re-establish his rights to the film.^[2]

It was remade in 1962 as Station Six-Sahara.^[3]

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Orlando, Valerie. Screening Morocco: Contemporary Depictions in Film of a Changing Society. Ohio University Press, 2011.

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