[1] It was shot at the Terra Studios in Berlin and on location at the sand dunes at Marienhöhe in the capital, a former quarry which stood in for Africa.

Although produced as an anti-British propaganda film, it was later banned by the Nazi authorities after the outbreak of the Second World War for not being hostile enough to Britain.

In order to carry out his duty as a British officer, he has his troops occupy the area's water supply to force the German soldiers to surrender.

On their way to join up with Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck's East African Schutztruppe command, they stop at Klix's grave.

Hellhoff promises the dead boy he will come back sooner or later — an allusion to the recovery of the lost colony through German victory in the Second World War.