Escape from Sahara
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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.
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Hildegard Knef
Madeleine Durand
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Bernhard Wicki
Luigi Locatelli
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Hannes Messemer
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Helmut Schmid
Pat Kilby
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Joachim Hansen
Kurt Gerber
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Harry Meyen
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Werner Peters
Brouillard
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Siegfried Lowitz
Kapitän Gerlach
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Ursula Diestel
Lucienne Germanini
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Friedrich Maurer
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Leonard Steckel
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Hanita Hallan
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Wolfgang Staudte Director · Werner Jörg Lüddecke Screenplay Johannes Mario Simmel Screenplay
First release January 21, 1958 · Produced in Germany · Original title Madeleine und der Legionär
Production
Melodie Film
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Germany
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Original title
Madeleine und der Legionär
Original language
German
Spoken on screen
German
Release dates
Germany · January 21, 1958
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No release date listed for United States.
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