Quax in Afrika

Quax in Afrika (1947)

Quax, a former crash pilot, has now become a skilled pilot who even trains student pilots himself. When he crashes his plane with two women on board in the African jungle due to a malfunction, he has several problems to solve: First, he has to cope with the conditions in the wilderness, and then he also has two female creatures in tow!

Date of release
1947-05-16
TMDB
5.6 / 10 (8)
Runtime
1h 35m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Helmut Weiss
Collection
Quax Filmreihe

Casting

Interesting facts

Quax in Africa is a German comedy adventure film produced from 1943–1944 and released in 1947, directed by Helmut Weiss and starring Heinz Rühmann, Hertha Feiler, and Lothar Firmans. It is a sequel to the 1941 film Quax the Crash Pilot.

Production

Both the precursor film Quax the Crash Pilot and the sequel Quax in Africa are based on books written by Dr. Herrmann Grote (1904–1980). The first book carried the same title, Quax der Bruchpilot, as the first film and was published in 1936, while the second book was originally published under the title Quax auf Abwegen [Quax off track] before being republished as Quax in Afrika.

It was made at the Babelsberg Studios in Potsdam. Some scenes were shot at an airfield near the Bavarian town of Kempten while parts of Brandenburg doubled for the African scenes. The film's sets were designed by Willi Herrmann.

Although the female lead from the previous film, Karin Himboldt, appears again, the principal romantic interest is now played by Rühmann's real-life wife Hertha Feiler.

The film was shot from July 1943 to January 1944. The German Film Review Office passed the film in February 1945, but it was not released by the end of the war. In 1945 it was banned by the Allied occupation authorities. It was first distributed in Sweden in 1947, and obtained a full West German release in 1953.

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