Via Mala | |
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Directed by | Paul May |
Produced by | Artur Brauner |
Written by |
John Knittel (novel) Kurt Heuser Paul May |
Starring |
Gert Fröbe Joachim Hansen Christine Kaufmann Christian Wolff |
Music by | Rolf A. Wilhelm |
Cinematography | Richard Angst |
Edited by | Walter Wischniewsky |
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Distributed by | Gloria Film |
Release date
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9 August 1961 |
Running time
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93 minutes |
Country | West Germany |
Language | German |
Via Mala is a 1961 West German drama film directed by Paul May and starring Gert Fröbe, Joachim Hansen and Christine Kaufmann. It is an adaptation of the 1934 novel Via Mala by John Knittel, which had previously been made into a film in 1945. After a tyrannical father in a small Swiss village is killed, almost everyone he knows comes under suspicion of having murdered him.