When Night Falls on the Reeperbahn | |
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German | Wenn es Nacht wird auf der Reeperbah |
Directed by | Rolf Olsen |
Written by | Rolf Olsen |
Produced by | Heinz Willeg |
Starring | Erik Schumann Fritz Wepper Konrad Georg |
Cinematography | Franz Xaver Lederle |
Edited by | Renate Willeg |
Music by | Erwin Halletz |
Production company | Allianz Filmproduktion |
Distributed by | Constantin Film |
Release date |
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Running time | 98 minutes |
Country | West Germany |
Language | German |
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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.
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