West Germany / Switzerland / Spain,
1958, 100 min
Directed by:
Ladislao VajdaCinematography:
Heinrich GärtnerComposer:
Bruno CanforaCast:
Heinz Rühmann, Siegfried Lowitz, Michel Simon, Gert Fröbe, Ewald Balser, Emil Hegetschweiler, Margrit Winter, Max Haufler, Heinrich Gretler, Traute Carlsen (more)Plots(1)
The most famous serial killer film of those years: using chocolate hedgehogs, a man lures little children to their death. Heinz Rühmann plays the police detective in this film based on a screenplay by Friedrich Dürrenmatt who subsequently reworked it into the crime novel The Pledge (1958). (Locarno Festival)
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