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Operation Caviar - Part 1

Es muß nicht immer Kaviar sein

1961
Germany / France
feature film - Comedy
106 min. (2890 m.)
Location & Studio shooting / no Berlin story line

Cast

Actor/-ess: O.W. Fischer (Thomas Lieven); Eva Bartok (Vera); Senta Berger (Françoise); Jean Richard (Siméon); Geneviève Cluny (Mimi); Viktor de Kowa (Loos); Geneviève Kervine (Nancy); Werner Peters (Zumbusch); Fritz Tillmann (General von Felseneck); Peter Carsten (Bastian); Karl Schönböck (Lovejoy); Wolfgang Reichmann (Hofbauer); Karl John (Debras); Hans W. Hamacher (Inspector Denis); Günter Meisner (Speaker); Werner Finck

Voice: Axel von Ambesser

Direction

Director: Géza von Radványi

Assistant director: Pierre Léaud

Co-Director: Helmut Käutner (1 Week); Georg Marischka

Writing

Screenplay: Paul Andréota; Jean Ferry

Based on: Johannes Mario Simmel (Novel)

Dialogue: Henri Jeanson

Camera & Light

Director of photography: Friedl Behn-Grund; Göran Strindberg

Camera operator: Günther Knuth

Assistant camera / focus puller: Alfred Westphal

Still photographer: Bob Klebig

Decor

Production design: Otto Pischinger; Herta Pischinger

Prop master: Klaus Haase; Horst Giese

Make-up artist: Raimund Stangl; Jette Arlt

Costume design: Claudia Herberg

Wardrobe: Hans Steinberg; Charlotte Jungmann; Ernst Nuckel

Cutting & Mixing

Editing: Walter Wischniewsky

Assistant editor: Waltraud Wischniewsky

Sound: Clemens Tütsch

Sound assistant: Willibald Suter

Audio mixing: Max Galinsky

Music

Music: Rolf A. Wilhelm

Production

Producer: Artur Brauner

Co-Producer: M. L. Vittet

Line producer: Georg M. Reuther

Unit production manager: Louis C. Fleury

Location manager: Richard Oehlers; Josef Thuis

Companies

Production company: CCC Filmkunst GmbH

in Co-Production: Comptoir d Expansion Cinématographique (C.E.C)