Via Mala (1961 film)
Appearance
Via Mala | |
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Directed by | Paul May |
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Produced by | Artur Brauner |
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Cinematography | Richard Angst |
Edited by | Walter Wischniewsky |
Music by | Rolf A. Wilhelm |
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Distributed by | Gloria Film |
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Running time | 93 minutes |
Country | West Germany |
Language | German |
Via Mala is a 1961 West German drama film directed by Paul May and starring Gert Fröbe, Joachim Hansen and Christine Kaufmann.[1] It is an adaptation of the 1934 novel Via Mala by John Knittel, which had previously been made into a film in 1945. After a tyrannical father in a small Swiss village is killed, almost everyone he knows comes under suspicion of having murdered him.
Cast
- Gert Fröbe as Jonas Lauretz
- Joachim Hansen as Andreas von Richenau
- Christine Kaufmann as Sylvia Lauretz
- Christian Wolff as Niklas Lauretz
- Anita Höfer as Hanna Lauretz
- Edith Schultze-Westrum as Mutter Lauretz
- Joseph Offenbach as Knecht Jöry
- Anne-Marie Blanc as Frau von Richenau
- Rudolf Forster as Maler Matthias
- Paul Henckels as Dr. Gutknecht
- Heinrich Gretler as Amtmann Bonatsch
- Margrit Weiler as Kunigunde Meier
- Claus Wilcke as Henry Scherz
- Alexa von Porembsky as Wirtin Gumpers
- Werner Buttler as Gendarm Dieterli
References
- ^ Reimer & Reimer p. 118
Bibliography
- Reimer, Robert C.; Reimer, Carol J. (2010). The A to Z of German Cinema. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-1-4617-3186-3.
External links
Categories:
- 1961 films
- West German films
- German drama films
- German black-and-white films
- 1961 drama films
- 1960s German-language films
- Films about domestic violence
- Films based on Swiss novels
- Films based on works by John Knittel
- Films directed by Paul May
- Films set in Switzerland
- Films set in the Alps
- Remakes of German films
- Gloria Film films
- 1960s German films
- 1960s German film stubs