In the name of the devil

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Movie
German title In the name of the devil
Original title In the name of the devil / The Devil's Agent
Country of production Germany
United Kingdom
Ireland
original language English
Publishing year 1962
length 95 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director John Paddy Carstairs
script Robert Westerby
John Paddy Carstairs (anonymous) based
on the novel of the same name by Hans Habe
production Emmet Dalton
music Philip Green
camera Gerald Gibbs
cut Tom Simpson
occupation
synchronization

In the Name of the Devil is a German-British-Irish spy film drama filmed in Ireland in 1961 with Peter van Eyck , Marianne Koch and Christopher Lee in the leading roles.

action

Georg Droste was an officer in the German Abwehr during the Second World War, where he gained a lot of experience in everything to do with espionage. Well, in 1950, he lives as a harmless wine merchant in Vienna and, allegedly by chance, meets an old friend again at the train station, Baron Ferdi von Staub. You have a drink in the station bar, and the baron then invites his old friend over to his house. There, in a castle in Baden near Vienna in the Austrian Soviet zone, Georg Droste met Staub's sister, Countess Carla Cosimano. After some small talk, she asks Droste for a small favor. He should please take a package to Vienna for you and deliver it to a certain address. According to the noblewoman, the package is said to contain a rare book. Little does Droste suspect that at this moment he will be the courier for the Soviet secret service, because, as expected, there is a lot more in the package, namely information material that is important for secret service hidden in the book.

Returning to Vienna, Droste is intercepted by the US military police before the package is handed over and taken to the representative of the US espionage service there, a certain "Mr. Smith ", brought. He explains to him that the countess's castle is nothing more than a Soviet spy nest and that he, Droste, has become a Soviet agent with the package transport in her eyes. Droste is now in control and he is forced to work as a double agent for the Americans. First you send Droste with a new assignment behind the Iron Curtain, to Budapest. There he met the pretty and decent Nora Gülden, who really wanted to leave the communist country. Droste helps her escape to Austria, and during this dramatic time the two fall in love. While the Americans now have him on the hook, the Soviet side is also putting pressure on him and wants more from Droste.

A brief period of harmony follows, with enough money and personal happiness. Droste's son Johnny and Nora get to know each other better on a fishing trip. For a while Droste hid his new girlfriend about his real professional activities. But this fresh happiness does not last long, because Nora finally finds out about Droste's double agent activity and cannot live with it. Finally she leaves him. Then Smith uses the agent again against his will and demands that Droste contact the former Wehrmacht General Greenhahn, who is obviously pursuing sinister plans. Greenhahn, in turn, bribes Droste in order to get information about his two employers in this way. Soon Georg Droste got so caught up in the pitfalls of the two secret services that he can hardly escape this whirlpool. After his last highly dramatic assignment, Georg Droste wants to leave the life-threatening trade again, but he is no longer allowed to go. One day he is murdered on the street.

Production notes

In the Name of the Devil was written in English in Dublin in 1961 and published in Germany on November 27, 1962. In the UK, the black and white stripe could be seen two months earlier.

For director John Paddy Carstairs this was the last film directing, after which he only worked for television. Marianne Koch was the only one of the three German leading actors who had not dubbed herself.

The film was released on DVD in 2014.

synchronization

role actor Voice actor
Georg Droste Peter van Eyck he himself
Nora Marianne Koch Helga Trümper
Mr. Smith Macdonald Carey Wolfgang Eichberger
Baron von Staub Christopher Lee Holger Hagen
Inspector Hübring Albert Lieven he himself
General Greenhahn Marius Goring Ernst Fritz Fürbringer
Piroska Billie Whitelaw Margot Leonard
Countess Carla Cosimano Helen Cherry Marianne Wischmann
Bloch Eric Pohlmann Werner Lieven
Father Zambory David Knight Reinhard Glemnitz
Hungarian police chief Peter Vaughan Thomas Reiner
Horvat Michael Brennan Bum Kruger

Reviews

In Films 1962/64 the following can be read: "Colportage-related spy film based on a magazine novel."

"Somehow lost in the midst of the gaudier James Bond clones at the end of the 1960s," In the Name of the Devil "can still keep up with today's inspection."

Halliwell's Film Guide wrote: "Rowdy Cold War adventures that look like they were originally conceived as episodes for a television series".

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In the name of the devil. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on March 2, 2017 .
  2. ^ Films 1962/64. Critical notes from three years of cinema and television. Handbook VII of the Catholic film criticism. Düsseldorf 1965, p. 83
  3. ↑ In the Name of the Devil on Allmovie.com
  4. ^ Leslie Halliwell : Halliwell's Film Guide, Seventh Edition, New York 1989, p. 271

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