''Cuba Cabana'' is a 1952 West German

drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super ...

directed by Fritz Peter Buch and starring

Zarah Leander Zarah Leander (; 15 March 1907 – 23 June 1981) was a Swedish singer and actress whose greatest success was in Germany between 1936 and 1943, when she was contracted to work for the state-owned Universum Film AG (UFA). Although no exact record ...

O.W. Fischer Otto Wilhelm Fischer (german: O. W. Fischer, ; 1 April 1915 – 29 January 2004) was an Austrian film and theatre actor, a leading man of West German cinema during the ''Wirtschaftswunder'' era of the 1950s and 1960s. Life He was born in Klo ...

and Paul Hartmann. It was the second film of an early 1950s comeback for Leander, who had been a major star during the Nazi era.Marshall & Stillwell p.84 The film was based on a story by Tibor Yost. It was shot at the

Bavaria Studios Bavaria Studios are film production studios located in Munich, the capital of the region of Bavaria in Germany, and a subsidiary of Bavaria Film. History The studios were constructed in the suburb of Geiselgasteig in 1919 shortly after the Fir ...

Munich Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the third-largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Ha ...

and on locarion in

Madrid Madrid ( , ) is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million inhabitants and a Madrid metropolitan area, metropolitan area population of approximately 6.7 million. It is the Largest cities of the Europ ...

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and Malga. The film's sets were designed by the art directors

Bruno Monden Bruno Monden (1900–1980) was a German art director. He designed the sets for several rubble films in the wake of the Second World War.Shandley p.217 Selected filmography * '' The Stars Shine'' (1938) * '' The Murderers Are Among Us'' (1946) * ...

and

Hermann Warm Hermann Warm was a German art director for films. Born in 1889 (died 1976) in Berlin, Germany, Warm was an important figure in the expressionist movement of the 1920s. Warm entered the German film industry in 1912 after working on-stage for a w ...

Cast

as Arabella *

as Robby Tomsen * Paul Hartmann as Gouverneur * Hans Richter as Billy *

Eduard Linkers Eduard Linkers (11 October 1912 – 3 April 2004) was an Austrian actor. He appeared in more than 70 films between 1936 and 1988. Life He was born as Eduard Linker to a family of Jewish descent in Czernowitz, Austria-Hungary. He studied act ...

as Honneg * Karl Meixner as Pandulkar *

Nicolas Koline Nicolas Koline (1878–1973) was a Russian stage and film actor. He established himself in Russia as a stage performer with the Moscow Art Theatre. He emigrated from Russia after the October Revolution of 1917 and came to France with La Chauve-So ...

as Jose *

Werner Lieven Werner may refer to: People * Werner (name), origin of the name and people with this name as surname and given name Fictional characters * Werner (comics), a German comic book character * Werner Von Croy, a fictional character in the ''Tomb Rai ...

as Pedro *

Peter Elsholtz Peter Ludwig Wilhelm Elsholtz (20 October 1907 – 30 August 1977) was a German stage and film actor.Giesen p.193 Selected filmography * '' The Castle in Flanders'' (1936) * '' Truxa'' (1937) * '' The Ruler'' (1937) * ''Ride to Freedom'' (1937) ...

as Polizeikommissar * John Pauls-Harding as Adjutant * Hans Holten as Gomez * Harald Mannl as Chefredakteur * Karl Kreuzer as Inspizient *

Karl-Heinz Peters Karl-Heinz Peters (1903–1990) was a German film actor. Selected filmography * '' Alarm at Station III'' (1939) * '' Men Are That Way'' (1939) * '' The Governor'' (1939) * '' Enemies'' (1940) * '' Mein Leben für Irland'' (1940) * '' Between Ham ...

as Kriminalbeamter * Heinz Kargus as Filippo *

Willy Rösner Willy Rösner (1893–1966) was a German stage and film actor.Parrill p.131 Selected filmography * '' The King's Prisoner'' (1935) * '' The Monastery's Hunter'' (1935) * '' The Hunter of Fall'' (1936) * ''Frau Sixta'' (1938) * ''Water for Canitog ...

as Kapitän *

Gérard Tichy Gerard Tichy (also Gérard Tichy, Gerhard Tichi and Gerardo Tichy, 11 March 1920 – 11 April 1992) was a Spanish actor of German descent, who appeared in numerous movies, including several international productions. He was born in Weißenfels ...

as Polizei-Oberst

References

Bibliography

* Marshall, Bill & Stillwell, Jeananne. ''Musicals: Hollywood and Beyond''. Intellect Books, 2000.

External links

* {{1950s-Germany-film-stub 1952 films West German films German drama films 1952 drama films 1950s German-language films Films directed by Fritz Peter Buch Films set in South America German black-and-white films 1950s German films Films shot in Spain Films shot at Bavaria Studios