Espionage

Name: Espionage
Director: Franz Antel
Released: 1955-01-01

1955 film by Franz Antel

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Released: 1955
Director: Franz Antel
Screenwriter: Alexander Lernet-Holenia
Cast: Oskar Werner
, Ewald Balser
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, Barbara Rütting
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, Marte Harell
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Genre: historical film
Country of origin: Austria
Original language: German
Composer: Willy Schmidt-Gentner

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Espionage is a 1955 Austrian historical spy drama film directed by Franz Antel and starring Ewald Balser, Barbara Rütting and Gerhard Riedmann. It was shot at the Sievering Studios and on location in Vienna. The film's sets were designed by the art director Felix Smetana. It was based on the real story of Alfred Redl, an officer serving with Austrian Military Intelligence who was also secretly spying for the hostile Russian Empire before the First World War.

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Color: black-and-white
Costume designer: Gerdago
Director of photography: Hans Heinz Theyer
Film editor: Arnfried Heyne

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