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Die Reiter von Deutsch-Ostafrika is a film of genre Drama directed by Herbert Selpin released in USA on 7 june 1935 with Sepp Rist
Die Reiter von Deutsch-Ostafrika (1934)
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Add to a movie listDie Reiter von Deutsch-Ostafrika is a 1934 German film directed by Herbert Selpin.
The film is also known as The Riders of German East Africa (in the USA).
Synopsis
Sepp Rist plays the role of Hellhoff, a German farmer in German East Africa, who is conscripted into the Schutztruppe (German armed colonial force) at the beginning of the First World War. His wife Gerda and the young volunteer Klix manage the plantation while he is away. In 1916, the plantation is occupied by a British unit. The commander, Major Cresswell, knows Gerda is secretly supplying Hellhoff and his comrades who are concealed in the bush. He tries to use his old friendship with the Hellhoffs put a stop to her activities. In order to carry out his duty as a British officer, he has his troops occupy the area's water supply to force the German soldiers to surrender. As Hellhoff's wife and Klix are trying to clandestinely supply water to Hellhoff, she is arrested and the boy shot. He still manages to bring the canteen to the soldiers before he dies. Hellhoff and his men liberate Gerda, who was to be taken away for trial by a British military court, and make off with water and horses. On their way to join up with Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck's East African Schutztruppe command, they stop at Klix's grave. Hellhoff promises the dead boy he will come back sooner or later — an allusion to the recovery of the lost colony through German victory in the First World War.Actors
Sepp Rist
(Peter Hellhoff)
Peter Voß
(Englischer Farmer Robert Cresswell)
Georg H. Schnell
(Colonel Black, englischer Generalstabsoffizier)
Rudolf Klicks
(Volontär Wilm Klix)
Louis Brody
(Hellhoffs Aufseher Hamissi)
Vivigenz Eickstedt
(Englischer Offizier)
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