The Call of the Sea (1951 film)

The Call of the Sea or The Oceans Are Calling (German: Die Meere rufen) is a 1951 East German drama film directed by Eduard Kubat and starring Hans Klering, Käte Alving and Evamaria Bath. A defector to West Germany returns to the East, having become disillusioned by capitalist society.^[1]

It was made by the state-owned DEFA studio. The film's production designer was Artur Günther.^[2]

• Hans Klering as Ernst Reinhardt
• Käte Alving as Ida Reinhardt, dessen Frau
• Evamaria Bath as Gisela Reinhardt, beider Kind
• Helmut Ahner as Walter Reinhardt - beider Kind
• Herbert Richter as Franz Nölte
• Magdalene von Nußbaum as Emmi Nölte, seine Frau
• Viola Recklies as Inge Nölte, beider Kind
• Hans-Joachim Martens as Heinz Nölte, beider Kind
• Günther Ballier as Fischer Thomsen
• Fredy Barten as Erich Pascholle
• Albrecht Bethge as Auktionator
• Elfie Dugall as Trude
• Martin Flörchinger as Kurt Schöller
• Harry Gillmann
• Oskar Höcker as Fischmakler
• Kurt Jung-Alsen
• Herbert Kiper as Bürgermeister Gubitz
• Hans-Erich Korbschmitt
• Alfred Maack as Klüterbau
• Hans Maikowski as Hans Freese
• Willi Narloch as Richard Schweikert
• Wolfgang-Erich Parge as Karl Lamprecht
• Gustav Püttjer as Hein Bachmann
• Ursula Rank as Käte Flemming
• Johannes Schmidt as Heinrich Stüber
• Walter B. Schulz as Wilhelm Lehmann
• Friedrich Siemers as Dieter Specht
• Friedrich Teitge as Regierungsbeamter
• Christine von Trümbach
• Siegfried Weiß
• Teddy Wulff

Liehm, Mira; Liehm, Antonín J. (1980). The Most Important Art: Eastern European Film After 1945. University of California Press. p. 467. ISBN 9780520041288.

• The Call of the Sea at IMDb