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May 25, 2022 · David Blakeslee review's Kino Classics' Blu-ray release of director Robert Siodmak's late-career German detective story, THE DEVIL STRIKES AT NIGHT. Key moments. View all.
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A serial killer in 1944 Berlin sets the stage for Robert Siodmak’s stylish war time noir.
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- Roger Kirby
The Devil Strikes at Night (German: Nachts, wenn der Teufel kam) is a 1957 West German crime thriller film directed by Robert Siodmak and starring Claus Holm, Mario Adorf and Hannes Messemer. [1][2][3] The film noir is based on the true story of Bruno Lüdke. It was shot at the Baldham Studios.
Robert Siodmak's return to post-war Germany is highlighted by this brilliant film about a serial killer and justice.Roger Kirby's review -https://www.youtube...
In the final few months of the second world war (“Excuse the rubble”), police inspector Axel Kersten (Claus Holm) investigates the murder of a trashy barmaid whose freshly strangled body is discovered in front of her married boyfriend; Kersten looks past the circumstantial evidence (the boyfriend pleads innocence) and begins to connect the incid...
The Devil Strikes at Night movie (1957) review summary: Featuring a memorable Mario Adorf as the titular “devil,” Robert Siodmak’s well-crafted – even if at times disconcertingly tabloid-like – Nazi Germany-set drama asks viewers: What sets apart serial killers from socially sanctioned mass murderers?
Having fled Germany as the Nazi regime strengthened, Robert Siodmak returned to his home country in the mid-1950s and, in 1957, launched a scathing attack on the regime that had wrought destruction on so many, with the Oscar-nominated The Devil Strikes at Night.
