Orient Express (1944 film)

Orient Express (German: Orient-Express) is a 1944 German thriller film directed by Viktor Tourjansky and starring Siegfried Breuer, Gusti Wolf and Rudolf Prack.^[1] It was shot at the Bavaria Studios in Munich. The film's sets were designed by the art director Ludwig Reiber.

As the Orient Express hurtles through the Balkans, a loud scream is heard and the communication cord is pulled. The guard investigates and discovers a dead man in one of the compartments. Police from the nearest town arrive to investigate. It seems most of the passengers are suspicious.

• Siegfried Breuer as Baron Erich Hübner
• Gusti Wolf as Sonja Promshek
• Rudolf Prack as Franz Schulz
• Lisa Siebel as Frau Dr. Inge Geldern
• Paul Dahlke as Police Commisar Iwanowitsch
• Oskar Sima as Mischa Kowa, reporter
• Joseph Offenbach as Inspector Kosta Balaban
• Hilde Sessak as Vera Voneitz, aka Vera Pamalet
• Lotte Lang as Mizzi Treff
• Nicolas Koline as Der Schlafwagenschaffner
• Heini Handschumacher as Holzer, private detective
• Albert Lippert as Franko, lawyer
• Tibor Halmay as Jango
• Georg Vogelsang as Anton Brukenhauser
• Viktor Afritsch as Garwinsky
• Walther Jung as Die Excellenz

• Wiesenthal, Mauricio. The belle époque of the Orient-Express. Crescent Books, 1979.

• Orient Express at IMDb

• 1944 films
• Films of Nazi Germany
• German thriller films
• 1940s thriller films
• 1940s German-language films
• Films directed by Victor Tourjansky
• German black-and-white films
• Films set on the Orient Express
• Bavaria Film films
• Films shot at Bavaria Studios
• 1940s German films
• Films scored by Lothar Brühne
• 1940s German film stubs
• 1940s thriller film stubs

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