The Devil Strikes at Night

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The Devil Strikes at Night
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Original German poster
Directed by Robert Siodmak
Produced by Robert Siodmak
Written by
Starring
Music by Siegfried Franz
Cinematography Georg Krause
Edited by Walter Boos
Production
company
Divina-Film
Distributed by Gloria Film
Release dates
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  • 1957 (1957)
Running time
105 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 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

See also

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