The Devil Strikes at Night
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Directed by | Robert Siodmak |
Written by | Will Berthold (book) Werner Jörg Lüddecke |
Produced by | Robert Siodmak |
Starring | Mario Adorf Claus Holm Hannes Messemer Werner Peters |
Cinematography | Georg Krause |
Edited by | Walter Boos |
Music by | Siegfried Franz |
Distributed by | Gloria |
Release date |
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Running time | 97 minutes |
Country | West Germany |
Language | German |
The Devil Strikes at Night (German: Nachts, wenn der Teufel kam) is a 1957 West German film directed by Robert Siodmak. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film[1] and is based on the true story of Bruno Lüdke.
It is the story of a serial killer who murders women during the last year or two of World War II. In one of the crimes a man is arrested who is obviously innocent. An investigator who starts to get a thread which leads to the real killer is frustrated by Nazi authorities who feel that revealing the truth will undermine the people's faith in their supposedly infallible system. The detective story gradually becomes a story about the evils of political propaganda and corruption.
Cast
- Claus Holm as Kriminalkommissar Axel Kersten
- Annemarie Düringer as Helga Hornung
- Mario Adorf as Bruno Luedke
- Hannes Messemer as SS-Gruppenfuehrer Rossdorf
- Carl Lange as Major Thomas Wollenberg
- Werner Peters as Willi Keun
- Walter Janssen as Kriminalrat Boehm
- Peter Carsten as SS- Standartenfuhrer Mollwitz
- Wilmut Borell as SS-Sturmbannfuhrer Heinrich, Rossdorf's aide
- Monika John as Lucy Hansen, Kellnerin
- Rose Schäfer as Anna Hohmann
- Lukas Ammann as Pflichtverteidiger von Keun
- Karl-Heinz Peters as Hauswart
See also
- List of submissions to the 30th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
- List of German submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
References
- ^ "The 30th Academy Awards (1958) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 2011-10-25.
External links
Categories:
- 1957 films
- West German films
- German-language films
- Films set in Berlin
- 1950s crime drama films
- 1950s thriller films
- German thriller films
- Detective films
- Political drama films
- Films directed by Robert Siodmak
- German black-and-white films
- Serial killer films
- Films about Nazi Germany
- Films based on non-fiction books
- 1950s German film stubs
- Crime drama film stubs
- 1950s serial killer films