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When the famous singer Grace Collins got off the plane that had flown her a remote place in Northen Africa little did she know she would meet love and adventure there. If she came there, it was to visit Sir Collins, her stepfather. Falling in love was not on the agenda but how could she resist the charm of Nic Brenten, an alluring and idealistic Dutch engineer? Butcan devotion and generosity really compete with the greed of someone like Sir Collins, a cynical financier who wants to dispossess the locals of the copper mine Brenten helps them to develop ?...
Cast
Zarah Leander, Gustav Knuth, Franz Schafheitlin, Friedrich Domin, Gerhard Bienert, Karl Dannemann, Hermann Pfeiffer, Herbert Wilk, Ernst Karchow, Rolf Heydel, Carl Günther, Ernst Sattler
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