# Target in the Clouds > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Target_in_the_Clouds > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Target_in_the_Clouds.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Target_in_the_Clouds > Source revision: 1341607459 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) 1939 German film Target in the Clouds Directed by Wolfgang Liebeneiner Written by Hans Rabl (novel) Alf Teichs Eberhard Frowein Philipp Lothar Mayring Produced by Alfred Greven Hans Tost Starring Albert Matterstock Leny Marenbach Brigitte Horney Werner Fuetterer Cinematography Hans Schneeberger Eberhard von der Heyden Edited by Helmuth Schönnenbeck Music by Wolfgang Zeller Production company Terra Film Distributed by Terra Film Release date 10 March 1939 (1939-03-10) Running time 99 minutes Country Germany Language German ***Target in the Clouds*** (German: ***Ziel in den Wolken***) is a 1939 German [drama film](/source/Drama_film) directed by [Wolfgang Liebeneiner](/source/Wolfgang_Liebeneiner) and starring [Albert Matterstock](/source/Albert_Matterstock), [Leny Marenbach](/source/Leny_Marenbach) and [Brigitte Horney](/source/Brigitte_Horney). It was based on a novel by [Hans Rabl](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hans_Rabl&action=edit&redlink=1). The film portrays the struggles of the fictional German [aviation](/source/Aviation) pioneer Walter von Suhr, an officer in the pre-[First World War](/source/First_World_War) German army who saw the potential for military aircraft.[1] The film's sets were designed by the [art directors](/source/Art_director) [Otto Erdmann](/source/Otto_Erdmann_(art_director)), [Hans Sohnle](/source/Hans_Sohnle) and [Wilhelm Vorwerg](/source/Wilhelm_Vorwerg). It premiered at the [Ufa-Palast am Zoo](/source/Ufa-Palast_am_Zoo) in [Berlin](/source/Berlin). ## Cast - [Albert Matterstock](/source/Albert_Matterstock) as Walter von Suhr - [Leny Marenbach](/source/Leny_Marenbach) as Tilde von Gräwenitz - [Brigitte Horney](/source/Brigitte_Horney) as Margot Boje - [Werner Fuetterer](/source/Werner_Fuetterer) as Dieter von Kamphausen - [Volker von Collande](/source/Volker_von_Collande) as Ewald Menzel - [Christian Kayßler](/source/Christian_Kay%C3%9Fler) as Krasselt - [Willi Rose](/source/Willi_Rose) as Lehmann - [Margarete Kupfer](/source/Margarete_Kupfer) as Frau Menzel - [Gisela von Collande](/source/Gisela_von_Collande) as Elsi Menzel - [Franz Weber](/source/Franz_Weber_(actor)) as Herr von Suhr - [Gertrud de Lalsky](/source/Gertrud_de_Lalsky) as Frau von Suhr - [Liesl Eckardt](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Liesl_Eckardt&action=edit&redlink=1) as Frau Rühde, Magd auf dem Grävenitz-Gut - [Max Harry Ernst](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Max_Harry_Ernst&action=edit&redlink=1) as Ein Gast im Lokal - [Paul Hildebrandt](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Paul_Hildebrandt&action=edit&redlink=1) as Zuschauer bei der Flugvorführung - [Hans Junkermann](/source/Hans_Junkermann_(actor)) as Leslie - [Malte Jäger](/source/Malte_J%C3%A4ger) as Der Offizier, der den Frau-Wirtin-Vers aufsagt - [Willy Kaiser-Heyl](/source/Willy_Kaiser-Heyl) as Zuschauer bei der Flugvorführung - [Wilhelm P. Krüger](/source/Wilhelm_P._Kr%C3%BCger) as Der Dorfschullehrer - [Olga Limburg](/source/Olga_Limburg) as Frau von Gräwenitz - [Kurt Mikulski](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kurt_Mikulski&action=edit&redlink=1) as Ein französischer Flugzeugmonteur - [Hadrian Maria Netto](/source/Hadrian_Maria_Netto) as Oberst von Salis - [Joachim Rake](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Joachim_Rake&action=edit&redlink=1) as Der junge Adjutant des Hauptmann von Selbitz - [Heinrich Schroth](/source/Heinrich_Schroth) as Hauptmann von Selbitz - [Else Valery](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Else_Valery&action=edit&redlink=1) as Die Besitzerin des Lokals - [Robert Vincenti-Lieffertz](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert_Vincenti-Lieffertz&action=edit&redlink=1) as Der Adjutant des Oberleutnants von Suhr - [Leopold von Ledebur](/source/Leopold_von_Ledebur) as Ein Gast bei Grävenitz - [Michael von Newlinsky](/source/Michael_von_Newlinsky) as Ein Zuschauer am Flugplatz - [Elsa Wagner](/source/Elsa_Wagner) as Tante Guste - [Hanns Waschatko](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hanns_Waschatko&action=edit&redlink=1) as [Dr. Karl Lanz](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Karl_Lanz&action=edit&redlink=1) [[de](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Lanz)], donator of the [Lanzpreises](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lanz-Preis_der_L%C3%BCfte&action=edit&redlink=1) [[de](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanz-Preis_der_L%C3%BCfte)] - [Herbert Weissbach](/source/Herbert_Weissbach) as Zuschauer bei der Flugvorführung - [Hans Grade](/source/Hans_Grade) as Hans Grade, winner of the Lanz Price ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Paris p.93 ## Bibliography - Paris, Michael. *From the Wright Brothers to Top Gun: Aviation, Nationalism, and Popular Cinema*. Manchester University Press, 1995. ## External links - [*Target in the Clouds*](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0132638/) at [IMDb](/source/IMDb_(identifier)) v t e Films directed by Wolfgang Liebeneiner Don't Promise Me Anything (1937) The Model Husband (1937) You and I (1938) Yvette (1938) Target in the Clouds (1939) The Leghorn Hat (1939) Bismarck (1940) Ich klage an (1941) Her Other Self (1941) Melody of a Great City (1943) Love '47 (1949) Abundance of Life (1950) My Niece Susanne (1950) When a Woman Loves (1950) A Devil of a Woman (1951) Gateway to Peace (1951) The Blue Star of the South (1951) 1. April 2000 (1952) The Stronger Woman (1953) The Dancing Heart (1953) The Beautiful Miller (1954) Love Is Forever (1954) On the Reeperbahn at Half Past Midnight (1954) Sacred Lie (1955) I Was an Ugly Girl (1955) Leave on Word of Honour (1955) Winter in the Woods (1956) The Trapp Family (1956) Queen Louise (1957) Goodbye, Franziska (1957) Sebastian Kneipp (1958) The Trapp Family in America (1958) Taiga (1958) My Daughter Patricia (1959) Jacqueline (1959) Ingeborg (1960) Final Accord (1960) I'm Marrying the Director (1960) A Woman for Life (1960) The Last Chapter (1961) Schweik's Awkward Years (1964) The World Revolves Around You (1964) When Sweet Moonlight Is Sleeping in the Hills (1969) Goetz von Berlichingen of the Iron Hand (1979) This article related to a German film of the 1930s is a stub. 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