''Panic Time'' (German: ''Panische Zeiten'') is a 1980 West German

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directed by Peter Fratzscher and starring

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Vera Tschechowa Vera Wilhelmowna Rust (22 July 1940 – 3 April 2024), known as Vera Tschechowa, was a German producer, director, screenwriter, and actress of Russian descent. She appeared in more than 50 films between 1957 and 1996. She was widely known as E ...

and Walter Kohut.Hake p.180 The film's sets were designed by the

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. Shooting took place in

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and

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. The film's

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was released on the album '' Panische Zeiten''.

Cast

as Self / Carl Coolman * Leata Galloway as Vera * Walter Kohut as Minister Dr. Kurt Kling *

as Frau Dr. Wunder * Felix Scholz as Bodyguard Felix * Klaus Kauroff as Bodyguard Klaus *

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as Bodyguard Otto *

Hark Bohm Hark Bohm (; born 18 May 1939) is a German actor, screenwriter, film director, playwright and former professor for cinema studies. He was born in Hamburg-Othmarschen and grew up on the island Amrum. His younger brother was the actor Marquard Boh ...

as Peitschenperverser Dr. Gerhard Kühn * Beate Jensen as Wiebke Stinksterff von Löloland *

Eddie Constantine Eddie Constantine (born Israel Constantine; October 29, 1913 – February 25, 1993) was an American singer, actor and entertainer who spent most of his career in France. He became well-known to film audiences for his portrayal of secret agent L ...

as Lemmy Caution * Rudolf Beiswanger as Leuchtturmwärter Süchtig * Peter Ahrweiler as Professor McNaughton * Fritz Rau as Self * Heinz Domez as Entführer * Werner Böhm as Entführer * Willi Hermann as Entführer * Renate Schubert as Prostituierte Rosa *

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as Self * Jürgen Baumgarten as Motorradfahrer *

Karl Dall Karl Bernhard Dall (, 1 February 1941 – 23 November 2020) was a German comedian, singer, and television presenter. His distinctive 'hanging' eye was caused by a congenital ptosis. Family Karl Dall was born in Emden, the son of a scho ...

as Vögelwart

References

Bibliography

*Hans-Michael Bock and Tim Bergfelder. ''The Concise Cinegraph: An Encyclopedia of German Cinema''. Berghahn Books, 2009. * Hake, Sabine. ''German National Cinema''. Routledge, 2002.

External links

* 1980 films 1980s musical comedy films German musical comedy films West German films 1980s German-language films Films directed by Peter Fratzscher 1980s German films 1980 musical films {{1980s-Germany-film-stub