A mineral is discovered which can turn metal to gold or humans into zombies. When the mineral is stolen, secret agents are sent in to get the mineral back!
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Title: Der Teufel kam aus Akasava (1971)
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Fred Williams | ... | Rex Forrester |
| Soledad Miranda | ... | Jane Morgan (as Susann Korda) | |
| Horst Tappert | ... | Dr. Andrew Thorrsen | |
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Ewa Strömberg | ... | Ingrid Thorrsen (as Ewa Stroemberg) |
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Siegfried Schürenberg | ... | Sir Philip |
| Walter Rilla | ... | Lord Kingsley | |
| Paul Muller | ... | Dr. Henry (as Paul Müller) | |
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Blandine Ebinger | ... | Lady Abigail Kingsley |
| Howard Vernon | ... | Valet Humphrey | |
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A mineral is discovered which can turn metal to gold or humans into zombies. When the mineral is stolen, secret agents are sent in to get the mineral back!
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GermanRelease Date:
5 March 1971 (West Germany) See more »Also Known As:
El diablo que vino de Akasawa See more »Company Credits
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Rex Forrester: At least married women know what they want.
Ingrid Thorrsen: How cynical - for one so young.
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The lead actress Soledad Miranda was killed in a car accident in Portugal soon after finishing this film. See more »Quotes
Ingrid Thorrsen: But Mr Forrester, I'm a married woman.Rex Forrester: At least married women know what they want.
Ingrid Thorrsen: How cynical - for one so young.
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Before watching "The Devil Came From Akasava" (1971) last night, I'd seen two earlier pictures from director Jess Franco--"The Awful Dr. Orloff" (1961), a fun horror outing, and "Venus In Furs" (1968), an extremely surreal, ultimately unfathomable but nevertheless professionally made film--and this may be part of the reason why "Akasava" proved such a disappointment to me. This picture somehow doesn't seem professionally made at all, featuring as it does lazy directing (Franco is inordinately and tiresomely in love with his zoom lens), slipshod editing, and a plot that is often downright confusing. The story here concerns a mineral that is discovered in the fictitious African country of Akasava--one that can turn base metals into gold--and the various criminal parties that vie with the British Secret Service (in the person of the gorgeous Soledad Miranda) and Scotland Yard for possession. Despite the film's title, this is not a horror outing at all, but rather a poor man's secret agent caper that strangely features little action to speak of. The picture is guilty of the worst crime a movie can commit: It is boring. With the exception of some groovy psychedelic music, laced with trippy sitar (non sequitur as the music often is), and some lingering shots of Miranda (who, sadly, like other beautiful actresses such as Francoise Dorleac, Jayne Mansfield and Claudia Jennings, died in a car crash, right after "Akasava" was shot), this film does not offer much. Don't blame the fine folks at Image Entertainment, however. The DVD itself looks great, and offers some excellent subtitling for those of us who don't speak fluent German. But it would take a lot more than a nice-looking DVD to turn this base film into solid gold!