--- title: 'The Call of Africa (1952)' type: 'film' director: 'César Fernández-Ardavín' released: '1952-05-21' runtime_minutes: 109 genres: - 'War' countries: - 'Spain' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-call-of-africa-1952' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044845/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # The Call of Africa (1952) 1952 · 109 min · War · Spain Original title: La llamada de África ## Synopsis The Call of Africa is a 1952 Spanish war film directed by César Fernández Ardavín and starring Irma Torres, Ángel Picazo and Gérard Tichy. It is set in 1940 in Spanish Morocco. It was made at a time when Spain's dictator General Franco was trying to forge a closer relationship with the Arab states of the Middle East and the film promotes a concept of the "blood brotherhood" that links the Spanish and Moroccans. ## Credits - **Director:** [César Fernández-Ardavín](https://cinepixo.com/people/cesar-fernandez-ardavin) - **Screenplay:** [César Fernández-Ardavín](https://cinepixo.com/people/cesar-fernandez-ardavin) - **Original Music Composer:** [Jesús García Leoz](https://cinepixo.com/people/jesus-garcia-leoz) - **Director of Photography:** [Juan Mariné](https://cinepixo.com/people/juan-marine) ## Cast - [José Manuel Martín](https://cinepixo.com/people/jose-manuel-martin) - [Mario Berriatúa](https://cinepixo.com/people/mario-berriatua) - [José Jaspe](https://cinepixo.com/people/jose-jaspe) - [Irma Torres](https://cinepixo.com/people/irma-torres) - [Tomás Blanco](https://cinepixo.com/people/tomas-blanco) - [Ángel Picazo](https://cinepixo.com/people/angel-picazo) - [Gustavo Re](https://cinepixo.com/people/gustavo-re) - [María Ostalet Visiedo](https://cinepixo.com/people/maria-ostalet-visiedo) - [Gerard Tichy](https://cinepixo.com/people/gerard-tichy) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-call-of-africa-1952 Film facts: Wikidata (Q24514579); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.