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Madness Rules (1947)

Madness Rules poster
Original title
Matto regiert
Directed by
Leopold Lindtberg
Genre
drama film, crime film
Country
Switzerland
Runtime
1h 53m
Rated
16
Rating
6.2 of 10 from 8 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A police detective investigates a crime that takes him into a psychiatric hospital. The story follows his efforts to uncover the truth behind a disturbing incident.

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What happens

Madness Rules (German: Matto regiert) is a 1946 Swiss crime film directed by Leopold Lindtberg and based on a novel by Friedrich Glauser. It is one of Lindtberg’s Wachtmeister Studer films and was later screened at the Zurich Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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