The Day The Sky Exploded - An Italian or A German-Italian Sci-fi Movie ?

An Italian or A German-Italian Sci-fi Movie ?

The Day the Sky Exploded was an Italian-French co-production. however in Germany the movie was often considered as a German-Italian film. In fact the movie has an unusually high number of German actors for an Italian movie. Next to Paul Hubschmid were Eddi Arent and others actors from famous German Edgar Wallace "Krimi" movies. Some German sci-fi movie literature claims the movie director is German Paul Heusch, Paolo being a misspelling of Paul while Heusch is a German family name.

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