- The Devil Came at Night
Infobox Film
name = The Devil Came at Night
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director =Robert Siodmak
producer = Robert Siodmak
writer =Werner Jorg Luddecke
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starring =Mario Adorf Claus Holm Hannes Messemer Werner Peters
music =Siegfried Franz
cinematography =Georg Krause
editing =Walter Boos
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runtime = 97 min.
country =West Germany
language = German
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amg_id = 1:89331
imdb_id = 0050746"The Devil Comes at Night" ( _de. Nachts, wenn der Teufel kam) is a 1957 West German film directed by
Robert Siodmak . It was nominated for theAcademy Award for Best Foreign Language Film .It is the story of a serial killer who murders women during the last year or two of
World War II . In one of thecrimes a man is arrested who is obviously innocent. An investigator who starts to get a thread which leads to the real killer is frustrated byNazi authorities who feel that revealing the truth will undermine the people's faith in their supposedly infallible system. Thedetective story gradually becomes a story about the evils of politicalpropaganda andcorruption .External links
*imdb title|id=0050746|title=The Devil Came at Night
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