The Man Who Murdered (1931)

Original title

Der Mann, der den Mord beging

Directed by

Curtis Bernhardt

Genre

drama film

Country

Germany

Runtime

1h 32m

Rating

5.8 of 10 from 5 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A man is driven to commit a murder. The film follows his crime and its aftermath in Istanbul.

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What happens

The Man Who Murdered (German: Der Mann, der den Mord beging) is a 1931 German crime drama film directed by Curtis Bernhardt and starring Conrad Veidt, Trude von Molo and Heinrich George. It is adapted from the 1906 novel L'homme qui assassina by Claude Farrère. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Heinrich Richter and Hermann Warm. It was shot at the Babelsberg Studios in Potsdam. Location filming took place in Istanbul and around the Bosphorus. It premiered at the Gloria-Palast in Berlin. The following year a separate English version, Stamboul, was made. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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