The Devil Strikes at Night (1957)
September 19, 1957Release Date
The Devil Strikes at Night (1957)
September 19, 1957Release Date
Plot.
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Claus Holm
Kommissar Axel Kersten
Mario Adorf
Bruno Lüdke
Hannes Messemer
SS-Gruppenführer Rossdorf
Peter Carsten
SS-Standartenführer Mollwitz
Carl Lange
Major Thomas Wollenberg
Werner Peters
Willi Keun
Annemarie Düringer
Helga Hornung
Monika John
Lucy Hansen
Rose Schäfer
Anna Hohmann
Rosel Schäfer
Anna Hohmann
Walter Janssen
DS Boehm
Ernst Fritz Fürbringer
Dr. Schleffien
Wilmut Borell
SS-Obersturmführer Heinrich
Robert Siodmak
Director
Will Berthold
Writer
Helmut Brasch
SS-Truppführer Scharf
Georg Lehn
Detective Bruehl
Werner Jörg Lüddecke
Writer
Lukas Ammann
Public Defender
Siegfried Franz
Composer
Margaret Jahnen
Frau Weinberger
Georg Krause
Cinematographer
Käthe Itter
Doorman's Wife
Walter Boos
Editor
Else Quecke
Frau Lehmann
Christa Nielsen
Blonde Prostitute
Rolf Zehetbauer
ProductionDesigner
Dieter Thoms
Soldier
Heinz Beck
Station Constable (uncredited)
Trude Breitschopf
SS-Scharführerin (uncredited)
Friedrich Joloff
Radio Announcer (uncredited)
Karl-Heinz Peters
Air-raid Warden (uncredited)
Media.
Details.
Release DateSeptember 19, 1957
Original NameNachts, wenn der Teufel kam
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 40m
Genres
Wiki.
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 as well as winning German Film Award for Best Fiction Film in its native country. It is based on the true story of Bruno Lüdke.
It is a highly fictionalized account of the hunt for a serial killer, as he 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.
The film's sets were designed by the art directors Gottfried Will and Rolf Zehetbauer. Location shooting took place in Berlin and Munich.