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Why the UFOs Steal Our Lettuce

Checkpoint Charlie

1980
Germany
feature film - Comedy
91 min. (2490 m.)
Location shooting / Berlin story line

Cast

Actor/-ess: Tommi Piper (Peter McDonald); Hildegard Knef (seine Mutter); Ursela Monn (Monika); Raimund Harmstorf (Schiffskapitän); Gerd Duwner (Senator); Curd Jürgens (Commander); Pavla Ustinov (Ingenieurin); Henning Venske (Mechaniker); Kurt Raab (Hitler); Alexander Kerst; Antonia Dauphin; Almut Eggert; Edgar Froese; Herbert Fux; Jan George; Beate Hasenau; Klaus Münster; Ilse Pagé; Peter Schlesinger; Joachim Tennstedt; Dan van Husen; Herbert Weißbach

Direction

Director: Hansjürgen Pohland

Writing

Screenplay: Hansjürgen Pohland; Heinz Freitag

Camera & Light

Director of photography: Atze Glanert

Cutting & Mixing

Editing: Christa Pohland

Sound: Rainer Wiehr

Music

Music: Helmut Hattler (Kraan); Peter Wolbrandt (Kraan)

Production

Unit production manager: Martin Häussler

Companies

Production company: Cine-Contor-Filmproduktions GmbH