Escape from Sahara

Overview

Three Foreign Legionnaires - Luigi, Pat and Kurt - desert during the Algerian war because they have had enough of the inhumane war machine. But their comrade Robert intercepts them and decides to have them court-martialed. On their way to Algiers, they pick up young Madeleine, who has just survived an attack by insurgents. Suddenly Robert changes his mind and joins the deserters. Madeleine realizes that she is now a prisoner of the four foreign legionnaires and must make her own escape.

Directed by Wolfgang Staudte

Top cast

Hildegard Knef

Madeleine Durand

Bernhard Wicki

Luigi Locatelli

Hannes Messemer

Robert Altmann

Helmut Schmid

Pat Kilby

Joachim Hansen

Kurt Gerber

Harry Meyen

Jean de Maire

Werner Peters

Brouillard

Siegfried Lowitz

Kapitän Gerlach

Ursula Diestel

Lucienne Germanini

Friedrich Maurer

Leonard Steckel

Hanita Hallan

F

Friedrich Gnaß

Horst Beck

Reinhold Bernt

J

Joachim Cadenbach

Ernst von Klipstein

U

Ursula Krieg

Tilly Lauenstein

Georg Lehn

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