Teenage Wolfpack

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Teenage Wolfpack
Teenage Wolfpack FilmPoster.jpeg
Directed by Georg Tressler
Written by
Produced by
Starring
Cinematography Heinz Pehlke
Edited by Wolfgang Flaum
Music by Martin Böttcher
Production
company
Interwest
Distributed byUnion-Film Distributors Corporation of America (US)
Release date
27 September 1956
Running time
  • 97 minutes
  • 89 minutes (US)
Country West Germany
LanguageGerman

Teenage Wolfpack (German : Die Halbstarken) is a 1956 German crime drama film directed by Georg Tressler. The film is also known as Wolfpack in the United Kingdom. It was shot at the Spandau Studios in West Berlin

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Plot summary

The drama of a youthful triangle among gang leader Freddy (Horst Buchholz), his brother Jan (Christian Doermer), and bad girl Cissy (Karin Baal), in one of the first considerations of juvenile delinquency in post-war West Germany.

Cast

Soundtrack

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