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Via Mala is a Allemand film of genre Drama directed by Paul May with Gert Fröbe
Via Mala (1961)
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Add to a movie listVia Mala is a 1961 West German drama film directed by Paul May and starring Gert Fröbe, Joachim Hansen and Christine Kaufmann. 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.
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Le vieux Jonas Lauretz exploite avec sa famille une scierie isolée dans Viamala, en Suisse. Jonas est un tyran violent et intimide sa femme, son fils Niklas et ses filles Sylvia et Hanna. Ivre une fois de plus, il déclenche une bagarre et se retrouve en prison. Sa famille espère qu'il va changer.Actors
Gert Fröbe
(Jonas Lauretz)
Joachim Hansen
(Andreas von Richenau)
Christine Kaufmann
(Sylvia Lauretz)
Christian Wolff
(Niklas Lauretz)
Edith Schultze-Westrum
(Mutter Lauretz)
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