''Stars Over Colombo'' () is a 1953 West German

adventure film The adventure film is a broad genre of film. Some early genre studies found it no different than the Western film or argued that adventure could encompass all Hollywood genres. Commonality was found among historians Brian Taves and Ian Cameron in ...

directed by

Veit Harlan Veit Harlan (22 September 1899 – 13 April 1964) was a German film director and actor. Harlan reached the high point of his career as a director in the Nazi era; most notably his antisemitic film '' Jud Süß'' (1940) makes him controversial. W ...

and starring

Kristina Söderbaum Beata Margareta Kristina Söderbaum (5 September 1912 – 12 February 2001) was a Swedish-born German film actress, producer, and photographer. She performed in Nazi-era films made by a German state-controlled production company. Early life S� ...

, Willy Birgel and Adrian Hoven.Bock & Bergfelder p. 43 It was made in two parts, with a sequel '' The Prisoner of the Maharaja'' released in early 1954. It was shot at the

Bavaria Studios Bavaria Studios are film production studios located in Munich, the capital of the region of Bavaria in Germany, and a subsidiary of Bavaria Film. History The studios were constructed in the suburb of Geiselgasteig in 1919 shortly after the Firs ...

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took place in

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and

Ceylon Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, also known historically as Ceylon, is an island country in South Asia. It lies in the Indian Ocean, southwest of the Bay of Bengal, separated from the Indian subcontinent, ...

Cast

as Yrida * Willy Birgel as Maharadscha von Jailapur Gowan * Adrian Hoven as Gowaran *

René Deltgen Renatus Heinrich Deltgen (30 April 1909 in Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg – 29 January 1979 in Cologne, West Germany) was a Luxembourgish stage and film actor An actor (masculine/gender-neutral), or actress (feminine), is a person who port ...

as Lakamba * Rolf von Nauckhoff as Pahana *

Hermann Schomberg Hermann Schomberg (22 August 1907 – 16 November 1975) was a German film actor, film and television actor.Giesen p.194 Filmography References Bibliography * Giesen, Rolf. ''Nazi Propaganda Films: A History and Filmography''. McFarland, 2003. ...

as Götz sen. * Paul Busch as Michael Götz * Gilbert Houcke as Ambo * Karl Hermann Martell as Dari * Herbert Hübner as Zirkusdirektor * Theodor Loos as Der heilige Mann * Rolf Wanka as Prosecutor * Otto Gebühr as Dr. Kuroma * Sujata Jayawardena as Navarani * Rudolf Vogel as Yogi * Werner Lieven as Reishändler *

as Clown * Greta Schröder * Oskar von Schab

References

Bibliography

* Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. ''The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema''. Berghahn Books, 2009.

External links

* 1953 films West German films German adventure films 1953 adventure films 1950s German-language films Films directed by Veit Harlan Films shot in Sri Lanka Gloria Film films Films shot at Bavaria Studios 1950s German films Films scored by Franz Grothe German-language adventure films {{1950s-Germany-film-stub