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The Devil Strikes at Night
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The Devil Strikes at Night (Nachts, wenn der Teufel kam) is a 1957 film from West Germany directed by Robert Siodmak.The setting is 1944 Berlin. A waitress named Lucy Hansen is murdered, and her lover, a married low-level Nazi functionary named Willi Kuhn, is arrested. The only problem is, he didn't do it. Lucy was actually killed by one Bruno Luedke, a mentally challenged day laborer who is also a Serial Killer.Enter Inspector Axel Kersten, who has been transferred back to the civilian police after a knee injury on the Eastern Front left him with a permanent limp. Kuhn's arrest notwithstanding, Axel thinks the Hansen murder is tied to other cases that share a similar modus operandi. Soon he is proven right when Bruno is caught with Lucy Hansen's purse. Bruno confesses to some fifty murders, and the case is seemingly closed—except that the Nazi leadership, unwilling to admit that a serial killer has gone unchecked for 20 years, decides to hush everything up and execute the innocent Kuhn anyway.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); }) | |
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Dies Wide Open: The unfortunate Lucy Hansen when she is found dead in the foyer of her apartment. | |
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Creepy Souvenir: Bruno has a box in the basement where he lives that has various souvenirs. Among the items seen in there when he is rooting around are a doll, what appears to be a bra strap, a woman's shoe, a woman's shawl, and Lucy Hansen's purse. That last one is fatal to him, as the lady who sees him with it insists that he turn it in, which leads to his arrest. | |
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Chiaroscuro: Berlin is under wartime blackout, which is why it's dark and shadowy when Bruno strangles Lucy to death in the stairwell of her apartment building. | |
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Greater-Scope Villain: The immediate villain is Bruno Luedke, a Serial Killer. But the Greater-Scope Villain is the Nazi Party, which has turned Germany into a lawless, brutal, violent state, and which executes an innocent man rather than suffer the bad publicity of admitting to the existence of a Serial Killer. The judge in the Kuhn case makes this explicit when he tells Axel that concepts like justice and the rule of law are a dead letter in Hitler's Germany. This is further underlined in a scene where Bruno worms his way into a woman's apartment, only for the woman to tell him that she's hiding there because she's Jewish, and her husband was killed in Auschwitz. | |
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The End: The movie ends with a telegram reporting that Bruno was executed. His case file is closed, a "CASE CLOSED" stamp appears on the folder, and the film ends. | |
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