Nachts, Wenn der Teufel Kam

Plot

Writer/director Robert Siodmak based his German-filmed The Devil Strikes at Night on an actual case. Set during the last months of the Hitler regime, the film concerns a series of rapes and stranglings of young women. Gestapo officer Rossdorf (Hannes Messemer) and non-party member Axel Kersten (Claus Holm) investigate the trail of evidence. They discover that the criminal is Bruno Leudke, a mental defective (played by Mario Adorf). An open-and-shut case...except for the fact that Adorf is a loyal Nazi Party member! The dilemma now is to stem the crime spree without publicizing the embarrassing fact that "Aryan supremacy" is capable of yielding a monster like Adorf. Originally titled Nachts, Wenn der Teufel Kam, The Devil Strikes at Night has also been released as Nazi Terror at Night and Nights When the Devil Came. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Cast

• Mario Adorf - Bruno Ludke
• Claus Holm - Axel Kersten
• Hannes Messemer - Rossdorf
• Werner Peters - Willi Keun

Carl Lange - Maj. Wollenberg; Peter Carsten - Mollwitz; Monika John - Lucy Hanson; Annemarie Düringer - Helga Hornung; Margaret Jahnen - Frau Weinberger; Walter Janssen - Kriminalrat Dr. Boehm; Ernst F. Furbringer - Dr. Schleffien; Helmut Brasch - SS-Truppenfuehrer Scharf; Kaethe Itter - Portiersfrau; Georg Lehn - Kriminalassistent Bruehl

Credit

Robert Siodmak - Director, Walter Boos - Editor, Siegfried Franz - Composer (Music Score), Rolf Zehetbauer - Production Designer, Georg Krause - Cinematographer, Robert Siodmak - Producer, Werner Jorg Luddecke - Screenwriter

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