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The Devil Strikes at Night

Nachts, wenn der Teufel kam

  • 1957
  • Germany
  • feature film - Crime
  • 105 min. (2854 m.)
  • Location shooting / Berlin story line

Cast

Actor/-ess
Claus Holm (Inspector Axel Kersten)
Mario Adorf (Bruno Lüdke)
Hannes Messemer (SS-Leader Rossdorf)
Peter Carsten (Mollwitz)
Karl Lange (Major Wollenberg)
Werner Peters (Willi Keun)
Annemarie Düringer (Helga Hornung)
Monika John (waitress Lucy Hansen)
Rosel Schäfer (Anna Hohmann)
Ernst Fritz Fürbringer (district court director Dr. Schleffien)
Walter Janssen (criminalist Dr. Böhm)
Wilmut Borell (SS-Sturmführer Heinrich)
Helmut Brasch (SS-Truppführer Scharf)
Georg Lehn (criminal assistant Brühl)
Lukas Ammann (assigned counsel Willi Keuns)
Margaret Jahnen (Mrs. Weinberger)
Käthe Itter (porter woman)
Else Quecke (Mrs. Lehmann)
Christiane Nielsen (blonde)
Dietrich Thoms (soldier)
Karl-Heinz Peters (air raid warden)
Trude Breitschopf (sports teacher)
Heinz Beck (guard)
Toni Treutler (waitress)
Alois Maria Giani

Writing

Screenplay
Based on

Camera & Light

Director of photography
Georg Krause
Camera operator
André von Piotrowski
Assistant camera / focus puller
Klaus Werner
Horst Philipp
Still photographer
Peter Bock-Schroeder

Cutting & Mixing

Editing
Walter Boos
Assistant editor
Werner Preuss
Eva Maria Tittes
Helga Nordbeck
Sound
Erwin Jennewein
Sound assistant
Karl Mösbauer

Music

Music
Siegfried Franz

Production

Producer
Walter Traut
Robert Siodmak
Ilse Kubaschewski
Line producer
Claus Hardt
Unit production manager
Werner Fischer
Location manager
Gustav Lautenbacher
Dieter Weber
Production manager
Dorrit Birk
Payroll services
Anni Fries
Production office
Vera Kayser

Companies

Production company
KG Divina-Film GmbH