The Call of Africa

The Call of Africa (Spanish: La llamada de África) is a 1952 Spanish war film directed by César Fernández Ardavín and starring Irma Torres, Ángel Picazo and Gérard Tichy.

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.

[2] German agents operating out of Vichy-controlled Mauritania attempt to sabotage a strategic Spanish airstrip.

The Spanish and their native Moroccan allies are able to thwart this.

The film's hero a Spanish colonial army officer, enters into a relationship with a Berber princess.