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Via Mala (1945)

Via Mala poster
Directed by
Josef von Báky
Genre
drama film
Country
Germany
Runtime
1h 48m
Rating
6.3 of 10 from 3 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

In a remote village, a family is terrorized by a brutal father. After his disappearance, they grapple with the secret of what happened to him.

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What happens

Via Mala is a 1945 German drama film directed by Josef von Báky and starring Karin Hardt, Carl Wery and Viktor Staal. It is an adaptation of the 1934 novel Via Mala by John Knittel. It was released in April 1945, a month before the unconditional surrender of Germany. The film is visually expressionist, something comparatively rare during the Nazi era. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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