The Call of Africa | |
Director: | César Fernández Ardavín |
Music: | Jesús García Leoz |
Cinematography: | Juan Mariné |
Editing: | Magdalena Pulido |
Studio: | Hesperia Films |
Distributor: | Hesperia Films |
Runtime: | 109 minutes |
Country: | Spain |
The Call of Africa (Spanish: La llamada de África) is a 1952 Spanish war film directed by César Fernández Ardavín and starring Irma Torres, Ángel Picazo and Gérard Tichy.[1] It is set in 1940 in Spanish Morocco. It was made at a time when Spain's dictator 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.[2]
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.
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