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The Devil Strikes at Night is a Allemand film of genre Drama directed by Robert Siodmak with Mario Adorf

The Devil Strikes at Night (1957)

The Devil Strikes at Night
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Length 1h45
Directed by
OriginGerman
Genres Drama,    Thriller,    Historical,    Crime
Rating71% 3.5920753.5920753.5920753.5920753.592075

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 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.
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Synopsis

À Hambourg, en 1944, la serveuse d'une auberge est sauvagement assassinée. Les soupçons se portent rapidement sur le soldat Keun. L'inspecteur Kerstein ne le croit pas cependant coupable et tente de découvrir le meurtrier.

Actors

Mario Adorf

(Bruno Lüdke)
Claus Holm

(Police Commissioner Axel Kersten)
Hannes Messemer

(SS-Gruppenführer Rossdorf)
Werner Peters

(Willi Keun)
Peter Carsten

(SS-Standartenführer Mollwitz)
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