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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.

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The Devil Strikes at Night
Original German poster
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
Production company	Divina-Film
Distributed by	Gloria Film
Release date	1957 (1957)
Running time	105 minutes
Country	West Germany
Language	German

It is a highly fictionalized account of the hunt for serial killer Bruno Lüdke, 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.

Cast

• Claus Holm as Kriminalkommissar Axel Kersten
• Annemarie Düringer as Helga Hornung
• Mario Adorf as Bruno Lüdke
• 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

External links

• The Devil Strikes at Night at IMDb
• The Devil Strikes at Night at AllMovie

На других языках

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- [en] The Devil Strikes at Night

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[ru] Ночь, когда приходил дьявол

«Ночь, когда приходил дьявол» (нем. Nachts, wenn der Teufel kam) — немецкая криминальная драма режиссёра Роберта Сиодмака, которая вышла в свет в 1957 году.

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