Peter Voss, Hero of the Day

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Peter Voss, Hero of the Day
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Directed by Georg Marischka
Written by
Produced by Kurt Ulrich
Starring
Cinematography Klaus von Rautenfeld
Edited by Hermann Haller
Music by Erwin Halletz
Production
company
Kurt Ulrich Filmproduktion
Distributed by UFA
Release date
  • 22 December 1959 (1959-12-22)
Running time
105 minutes
CountryWest Germany
Language German

Peter Voss, Hero of the Day (German : Peter Voss, der Held des Tages) is a 1959 West German comedy crime film directed by Georg Marischka and starring O.W. Fischer, Linda Christian and Walter Giller. It was a sequel to the 1958 film Peter Voss, Thief of Millions which had been based on the novel of the same title by Ewald Gerhard Seeliger.

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It was shot at the Tempelhof Studios in Berlin, and on location in Nice, Morocco, Las Palmas, Singapore, Las Vegas and India. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Hertha Hareiter and Otto Pischinger.

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