The Adventurer of Tunis () is a 1931 German adventure film directed by Willi Wolff and starring Philipp Manning, Theo Shall, and Ellen Richter.Klaus p. 332 It was made at the Staaken Studios in Berlin.Klaus p.14 Location shooting took place in Marseille and Nice in France, Genoa and the Italian Riviera and in Tunis and the Sahara Desert. The film's art direction was by Robert Neppach and Willy Schiller.
Synopsis During an Arab uprising in North Africa, the European employees of a copper mine are besieged and need urgent help. When his government refuses to provide military assistance, the firm's Parisian owner sends his nephew Henry Bertell with weapons and ammunition. A rival company is behind the uprising, and sends one of its agents, a dancer named Collette, to seduce Henry and foil his mission. However, as they travel through Southern France, she falls in love with him and changes sides.
Cast Philipp Manning as Henry Bertell Theo Shall as René Ellen Richter as Colette, a dancer Charles Puffy as Emil Dupont Senta Söneland as Agathe - Bertell's wife Ferdinand Hart as Valera Leonard Steckel as Ferrero Rosa Valetti as Madame Rosa Heinrich Marlow as Martini Hans Hermann Schaufuß as First Police Commissioner Julius Falkenstein as Second Police Commissioner Aruth Wartan as Man from the Levante Henry Bender as Portier bei Bertell Emil Rameau as Prokurist bei Bertell
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Bibliography Klaus, Ulrich J. Deutsche Tonfilme: Jahrgang 1931. Klaus-Archiv, 2006.
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