Elephant Fury

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Elephant Fury
Elephant Fury (film poster).jpg
Directed by Harry Piel
Written by
Starring
Cinematography
Edited by Hilde Grebner
Music by
Production
companies
  • Ariel Film
  • Fabrikation Deutscher Filme
Distributed by UFA
Release date
  • 13 October 1953 (1953-10-13)
Running time
100 minutes
CountryWest Germany
Language German

Elephant Fury (German : Gesprengte Gitter) is a 1953 West German drama war film directed by and starring Harry Piel. [1] It also features Herbert A.E. Bohme, Hans Zesch-Ballot and Dorothea Wieck. The film had a troubled production history. Originally made between 1940 and 1943 under the title of Panic, it faced censorship problems. Following the end of the Second World War, Piel recovered the negative which had fallen into the hands of the occupying Soviet forces. He re-shot some scenes, and the film was eventually released more than a decade after it had first begun shooting.

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Synopsis

During the Second World War, an air raid on a zoo leads to the animals escaping across the city.

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References

  1. Rentschler p.283

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