When Night Falls on the Reeperbahn (1967)

Original title

Wenn es Nacht wird auf der Reeperbahn

Directed by

Rolf Olsen

Genre

action film

Country

Germany

Runtime

1h 38m

Rating

5.0 of 10 from 7 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A police inspector works to stop a smuggling ring operating in the nightlife district of Hamburg. The story follows his investigation through the city's seedy bars and back alleys.

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What happens

When Night Falls on the Reeperbahn (German: Wenn es Nacht wird auf der Reeperbahn) is a 1967 West German crime film directed by Rolf Olsen and starring Erik Schumann, Fritz Wepper and Konrad Georg. It was shot at the Tempelhof Studios in Berlin and on location around Hamburg. The role played by Konrad Georg was modelled on a similar one he played in the television series Kommissar Freytag. The film was a commercial success and over the next few years Olsen directed several further Hamburg-set crime films, many of them starring Curd Jürgens. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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