The Devil Strikes at Night

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The Devil Strikes at Night
Original German poster
Directed by	Robert Siodmak
Written by	(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	97 minutes
Country	West Germany
Language	German

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.

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. 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 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 Luedke
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

References[]

^ "The 30th Academy Awards (1958) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 2011-10-25.

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show v t Films directed by Robert Siodmak
Europe 1930–1939	People on Sunday (1930) Farewell (1930) Inquest (1931) About an Inquest (1931, MLV) The Man in Search of His Murderer (1931) Storms of Passion (1932) Quick (1932) The Burning Secret (1933) The Weaker Sex (1933) The Crisis is Over (1934) La Vie parisienne (1936) Parisian Life (1936) Compliments of Mister Flow (1936) White Cargo (1937) Mollenard (1938) Personal Column (1939)
Hollywood 1941–1951	West Point Widow (1941) Fly-by-Night (1942) The Night Before the Divorce (1942) My Heart Belongs to Daddy (1942) Someone to Remember (1943) Son of Dracula (1943) Phantom Lady (1944) Cobra Woman (1944) Christmas Holiday (1944) The Suspect (1944) The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry (1945) The Spiral Staircase (1946) The Killers (1946) The Dark Mirror (1946) Time Out of Mind (1947) Cry of the City (1948) Criss Cross (1949) The Great Sinner (1949) The File on Thelma Jordon (1950) Deported (1950) The Whistle at Eaton Falls (1951)
Europe 1952–1969	The Crimson Pirate (1952) Flesh and the Woman (1954) Die Ratten (1955) My Father, the Actor (1956) The Devil Strikes at Night (1957) Dorothea Angermann (1959) Magnificent Sinner (1959) The Rough and the Smooth (1959) My Schoolfriend (1960) The Nina B. Affair (1961) Escape from East Berlin (1962) The Shoot (1964) The Treasure of the Aztecs (1965) The Pyramid of the Sun God (1965) Custer of the West (1967) Kampf um Rom (1968)

show v t German submission for Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
West Germany	The Captain from Köpenick (1956) The Devil Strikes at Night (1957) Arms and the Man (1958) The Bridge (1959) Faust (1960) Young Törless (1966) Tattoo (1967) Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed (1968) Hunting Scenes from Bavaria (1969) o.k. (1970) The Castle (1971) Trotta (1972) The Pedestrian (1973) One or the Other of Us (1974) The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1975) The Clown (1976) The American Friend (1977) The Glass Cell (1978) The Tin Drum (1979) Fabian (1980) Lili Marleen (1981) Fitzcarraldo (1982) A Woman in Flames (1983) Man Under Suspicion (1984) Angry Harvest (1985) Men... (1986) Wings of Desire (1987) Yasemin (1988) Spider's Web (1989)
East Germany	Her Third (1973) Jacob the Liar (1976) Mama, I'm Alive (1977) The Fiancee (1980) The Turning Point (1983)
Germany	The Nasty Girl (1990) Schtonk! (1992) Justice (1993) The Promise (1994) Brother of Sleep (1995) Deathmaker (1996) Beyond Silence (1997) Run Lola Run (1998) Aimée & Jaguar (1999) No Place to Go (2000) The Experiment (2001) Nowhere in Africa (2002) Good Bye, Lenin! (2003) Downfall (2004) Sophie Scholl – The Final Days (2005) The Lives of Others (2006) The Edge of Heaven (2007) The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008) The White Ribbon (2009) When We Leave (2010) Pina (2011) Barbara (2012) Two Lives (2013) Beloved Sisters (2014) Labyrinth of Lies (2015) Toni Erdmann (2016) In the Fade (2017) Never Look Away (2018) System Crasher (2019) And Tomorrow the Entire World (2020)

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The Devil Strikes at Night

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