You die at six in Tetuan

Movie
German title	You die at six in Tetuan
Original title	La lunga sfida
Country of production	Italy , Germany
original language	Italian
Publishing year	1967
length	89 (German version 80) minutes
Age rating	FSK 16
Rod
Director	Nino Zanchin (as Mark Andrews )
script	Fernando Di Leo Nino Zanchin Alberto Cavallone
music	Marcello Giombini
camera	Franco Delli Colli
cut	Daniele Alabiso
occupation
Giorgio Ardisson : Patrick Gordon (as George Ardisson ) Sieghardt Rupp : Gert Schneider Luigi Pistilli : Paynes Katrin Schaake : Blals European accomplice Lisa Halvorsen : Ursula Marco Stefanelli : Eric Gordon Franco Ukmar : Payne's accomplice Charaibi Ben Bensalem : Blal Ivan G. Scratuglia
synchronization

You die at six in Tetuan (original title: La lunga sfida ) is a crime film in Italian-German coproduction from 1967. Nino Zanchin directed under a pseudonym ; The film was released on April 25, 1969 in German-speaking cinemas.

action

In Beirut, the police are on duty against drug traffickers who have chosen the city as the center of their trade. The local boss Blal is also facing competition from Englishman Paynes, who is developing a plan to smuggle a large amount of hashish into Tetuan. He wants to use a mining engineer to get the goods out of town. Since Patrick Gordon, who has so far led a relaxed life with his German colleague Gert Schneider, initially refuses, Paynes has his son Eric kidnapped. Gordon agrees and brings the cargo to its destination, additionally hindered by the competing gang of Blals. Only then do the police intervene, who until then have only been observing, and put the middlemen on a boat. With the unexpected help of Blal, Gordon can finally embrace his son as well.

criticism

The lexicon of international film wrote "In places a highly effective suspense film in an agent milieu" . In the genre book Der Terror is directed by Karsten Thurau: “You have to give the relatively unknown director (...) high credit for not falling into the typical 'sixties supermen' syndrome," which means that his characters are definitely believable and vulnerable. ”The Protestant film observer remarks succinctly that the film is a meaningless and low-tension thriller.

Remarks

Don Powell sings the movie song Something in a Flower .

Web links

• You die in Tetuan at six in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• The film at comingsoon

Individual evidence

1. ↑ You die at six in Tetuan. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .  
2. ↑ Michael Cholewa / Karsten Thurau: The Terror directs . 1999, p. 51
3. ↑ Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 236/1969