The Thief of Bagdad (1952 film)

The Thief of Bagdad
Directed by	Karel Lamac
Written by	Gustav Kampendonk
Produced by	Fritz Kirchhoff
Starring	Sonja Ziemann Rudolf Prack Paul Kemp
Cinematography	Willy Winterstein
Edited by	Rosemarie Weinert
Music by	Michael Jary Lotar Olias
Production company	Pontus Film
Distributed by	Deutsche Cosmopol Film
Release date	10 April 1952
Running time	91 minutes
Country	West Germany
Language	German

The Thief of Bagdad (German: Die Diebin von Bagdad) is a 1952 West German musical comedy film directed by Karel Lamac and starring Theo Lingen, Paul Kemp, Sonja Ziemann and Rudolf Prack. It is not a remake of the 1940 film of the same name, but a comedy about the magic tricks of a female thief in Old Baghdad. It was filmed at studios in Bendestorf, Lower Saxony. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Heinrich Beisenherz and Alfred Bütow.

Cast

• Sonja Ziemann as Fatme, die Diebin von Bagdad
• Rudolf Prack as Achmed
• Paul Kemp as Kalif Omar
• Theo Lingen as Hadschi
• Fita Benkhoff as Suleika
• Hubert von Meyerinck as Hussa Hussa
• Fritz Odemar as Ibrahim
• Carl Voscherau as Sandu, Eunuch
• Walter Giller as Ommar
• Kurt Rackelmann as Hassan
• Kurt Fuß as Halef, Diener des Kalifen
• Hans Juergen Weidlich as Amento, Diener des Kalifen
• Joachim Rake as Prinz Ali
• Kurt A. Jung as Mansor
• Horst von Otto as Selim
• Horst Beck as Arzt
• Liselotte Malkowsky as Singer

Bibliography

• Hans-Michael Bock and Tim Bergfelder. The Concise Cinegraph: An Encyclopedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2009.

External links

• The Thief of Bagdad at IMDb