Always with a full moon
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Always with a full moon |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1970 |
| length | 87 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Rudolf Lubowski |
| script | Rudolf Lubowski |
| production | Rudolf Lubowski |
| music | Kristian Schultze |
| camera | Rainer Walzel |
| cut | Christina Heinle |
| occupation | |
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Always at a full moon is a German crime film from 1969 with Heinz Weiss as the detective, who chases a dangerous sex offender, played by Alois Maria Giani . The former silent film star Camilla Horn (as the mother of the serial killer) can be seen in a rare late role .
action
Always with a full moon ... the little civil servant Christian Wegelin, tormented by his dark instincts - type: humiliated, gray mouse - strikes. Appreciated by the public as a good and inconspicuous citizen, he is urged to commit a crime at the eponymous point in time. The small town is deeply disturbed by the acts. Commissioner Mallet is tasked by his superior to finally put an end to the dangerous serial perpetrator who has committed so many murders of women to his conscience. Mallet firmly believes that the stranger must be a sex criminal as there is no other motive for murder. But at first he does not find a suspect to whom this description and his behavior could apply.
The perpetrator has the classic characteristics of a slipper-slipper who is oppressed at home by his wife and mother and has consequently developed into a misogynous and complex-laden psychopath. Mallet and his assistants follow every lead. First, a casual crook and handbag thief with a leather jacket is suspected, then the elderly, honest grocer Stass and finally a janitor. Investigators also target a pimp. All traces turn out to be false. When a middle-aged woman named Flora becomes a victim of the criminal, Mallet and his team gradually track down the perpetrator.
Production notes and trivia
Always at full moon was created in 1969 in Augsburg and was premiered in this city on March 13, 1970.
Heinrich Graf Brühl designed the film structures.
The story shows slight borrowings from the Heinz Rühmann crime thriller It happened in broad daylight (1958).
Always with a full moon and Who is crying because in the brothel were two thematically completely different films that Lubowski shot in quick succession in 1969 in Bavaria and that in some cases featured the same actors (Camilla Horn, Bum Krüger, Jutta Simon, Alexis von Hagemeister).
criticism
The lexicon of international films found the direction, writing and performance so amateurish that "even the tragedy of a humiliated little official is silted up in ridicule."
Web links
- Always at full moon in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Always at full moon at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Always at full moon. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed January 1, 2018 .