Es geschah am hellichten Tag (1958)

Calificación de los usuarios:

8.0/10   

Director:

Ladislao Vajda

Escritores:

Friedrich Dürrenmatt (screenplay)
Friedrich Dürrenmatt (story)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

9 junio 1958 (Alemania Occidental)

Género:

Crimen | Suspenso | Drama

Plot:

Several young girls were killed. Policeman Matthaei travels to the region where it happened and searches...

Plot Keywords:

Girl | Ruthlessness | Suicide | Child Murder Investigation | Investigation

Premios:

4 wins & 1 nomination

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Haunting, Intense, Terrifying...

Reparto

Heinz Rühmann	...	Oberleutnant Matthäi
Sigfrit Steiner	...	Det. Feller
Siegfried Lowitz	...	Lt. Heinzi
Michel Simon	...	Jacquier
Heinrich Gretler	...	Polizeikommandant
Gert Fröbe	...	Schrott
Berta Drews	...	Frau Schrott
Ewald Balser	...	Professor Manz
Roger Livesey	...	Professor Manz (voice: English version)
María Rosa Salgado	...	Frau Heller
Anita von Ow	...	Annemarie Heller
Barbara Haller	...	Ursula Fehlmann
Emil Hegetschweiler	...	Gemeindepräsident
Rene Magron
Max Werner Lenz

También conocida como:

El cebo (Spain)
It Happened in Broad Daylight (USA)

Duración:

Spain:90 min | Switzerland:100 min | West Germany:95 min (Berlin International Film Festival)

País:

Alemania Occidental | Switzerland | Spain

Idioma:

Alemán | Español

Color:

Negro y Blanco

Relación de Aspecto:

1.37 : 1

Sonido:

Mono

Clasificación:

Germany:12 (DVD rating) | Finland:K-16 | West Germany:12 (f) (w) | Sweden:15

Locaciones de Filmación:

Airport Zürich Kloten, Kanton Zürich, Switzerland

Compañía:

Praesens-Film

Trivialidades:

Ewald Balser plays Professor Manz in the German language version, but 'Roger Livesey' (wv) plays Professor Manz in the English language version.

Conexiones de Película:

Version of Es geschah am hellichten Tag (1997) (TV)

Haunting, Intense, Terrifying...

Sometimes, a film simply haunts you. You can't even remember its name, but the experience of watching it was so vivid, it remains intact in memory. I saw this stark and grueling flick, with strong thematic and aesthetic similarities to Fritz Lang's "M", some years back on TV (in its dubbed incarnation, of course). It was a full twenty years later when I happened upon a paperback novel called "The Pledge" by Freidrich Duerrenmatt. Upon reading it, I realized it was the story for this film! I was thus thrilled to see this obscure film listed on the impressively comprehensive IMDB. The story as told in the novel is scary enough, but the film manages to create an atmosphere of unbearable tension and palpable terror within the enchanting, brightly-lit lanes of a small German village, no mean feat. The dialogue is kept to a minimum in order to enable mood and nuance to run rampant. The bleak, contrasty b/w cinematography is virtually expressionist at times. You could call this spooky film the (very) dark side of LOLITA. Simply haunting.