The Thief of Bagdad (1952 film)

The Thief of Bagdad

Directed by	Karel Lamač
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 (1952-04-10)
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.^[1] 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 the Bendestorf Studios in Lower Saxony. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Heinrich Beisenherz and Alfred Bütow.

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Plot summary

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

References

^ Bock & Bergfelder p. 158

Bibliography

Bock, Hans-Michael; Bergfelder, Tim, eds. (2009). The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. New York: Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-57181-655-9.

External links

The Thief of Bagdad at IMDb

Films directed by Karel Lamač

Gilly in Prague for the First Time (1920)
White Paradise (1924)
Karel Havlíček Borovský (1925)
The Lantern (1925)
The Countess from Podskalí (1926)
Never the Twain (1926)
Eve's Daughters (1928)
Suzy Saxophone (1928)
The First Kiss (1928)
The Girl with the Whip (1929)
Sin of a Beautiful Woman (1929)
Sinful and Sweet (1929)
The Caviar Princess (1930)
Fairground People (1930)
Imperial and Royal Field Marshal (1930)
Him and His Sister (1931)
The Squeaker (1931)
Business Under Distress (1931)
Die Fledermaus (1931)
The Cruel Mistress (1932)
The Undertaker (1932)
A Night in Paradise (1932)
Lelíček in the Services of Sherlock Holmes (1932)
Kiki (1932)
Should We Wed Them? (1932)
Wehe, wenn er losgelassen (1932)
Mamsell Nitouche (1932)
The Ringer (1932)
The Love Hotel (1933)
Daughter of the Regiment (1933)
Little Dorrit (1934)
Nezlobte dědečka (1934)
The Switched Bride (1934)
The Brenken Case (1934)
Polish Blood (1934)
Frasquita (1934)
Knockout (1935)
The Young Count (1935)
The White Horse Inn (1935)
The Bashful Casanova (1936)
The Postman from Longjumeau (1936)
Where the Lark Sings (1936)
Florentine (1937)
A Girl from the Chorus (1937)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1937)
Cause for Divorce (1937)
The Vagabonds (1937)
The Lantern (1938)
Ducháček Will Fix It (1938)
Place de la Concorde (1939)
Schweik's New Adventures (1943)
They Met in the Dark (1943)
It Happened One Sunday (1944)
One Night at the Tabarin (1947)
The Thief of Bagdad (1952)

One Thousand and One Nights

Translations

Les mille et une nuits (1704–1717)
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (1885–1888)
Le livre des mille nuits et une nuit (1926–1932)

Stories

Characters

Fictional	Aladdin Ali Baba Badroulbadour Old Man of the Sea Scheherazade Sinbad the Sailor
Legendary	Hatim al-Tai Khidr Ma'n ibn Za'ida al-Shaybani Sayf ibn Dhi Yazan Shaddad ibn 'Ad Solomon
Historical	Abu Nuwas Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan Al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf Al-Ma'mun Baibars Harun al-Rashid Ibrahim al-Mawsili Ishaq al-Mawsili Ja'far ibn Yahya Khosrow II Shirin Zubaidah bint Ja'far

Films

The Thief of Bagdad (1924)
The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926)
The Thief of Bagdad (1940)
Arabian Nights (1942)
Baghdad Ka Chor (1946)
La Rosa di Bagdad (1949)
The Thief of Bagdad (1952)
Baghdad Thirudan (1960)
The Thief of Baghdad (1961)
Baghdad Gaja Donga (1968)
A Thousand and One Nights (1969)
Arabian Nights (1974)
The Thief of Baghdad (1978)
Ajooba (1991)
Arabian Nights (2015)

Templates

Television

Alif Laila (1993–1997)
Scooby-Doo! in Arabian Nights (1994)
Arabian Nights (2000)
Thief of Baghdad (2000–2001)
1001 Nights (2011)

Music

Operas	Le calife de Bagdad (1800) Abu Hassan (1811) Ali Baba (Cherubini) (1833) Der Barbier von Bagdad (1858) La statue (1861) Ali-Baba (Lecocq) (1887) Mârouf, savetier du Caire (1914)
Other	Scheherazade Op. 35 (1888) Aladdin (1918–1919)

Literature

"Recollections of the Arabian Nights" (1830)
"The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade" (1845)
New Arabian Nights (1882)
Slaves of Sleep (1939)
The Eighth Voyage of Sindbad (1964)
Dunyazadiad (1972)
Arabian Nights and Days (1979)
The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor (1991)
Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights (2015)

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