Days of vengeance

Television broadcast
Original title	Days of vengeance
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
year	1970
Production company	Süddeutscher Rundfunk
length	67 and 80 minutes
Episodes	2
genre	Miniseries drama crime film
Director	Theo Mezger
script	Ted Willis Edward J. Mason Peter Badenberg
production	Werner Sommer
music	Jonas C. Haefeli
First broadcast	March 30, 1970 on ARD
occupation
Christa Berndl : Ann Mitchell Wolf Frees : Partridge Hans Jaray : Power Rüdiger Kirschstein : Rich Klaus Lerm : Johnson Willy Leyrer : Stabler Else Quecke : Agnes Peer Schmidt : Mitchell Jürgen Sidow : Willis Günter Strack : Joe West

Days of Vengeance is a TV film by ARD . A criminal seeks revenge on a London police inspector known for his harsh methods and kidnaps his young son. The negotiations with the kidnapper develop into a psychological war. The film was produced in 1970 and aired in two parts on March 30th and 31st.

action

The London Detective Inspector Mitchell, known as "Mitch", pursues the criminals with merciless consistency. His hatred of them is passionately reciprocated in the underworld. One day his little son Ken is kidnapped. A stranger torments Mitch and his wife Ann with frightening phone calls. Obviously, it's not about money, he wants to see Mitch suffer and wants revenge. So he transmits the Bible quote to the concerned parents "For these are the days of vengeance ..." ( Lk 21:22  EU ). The search for the kidnapper turns out to be very difficult, because he makes his demands: withdrawal of all police officers, no further searches and immediate cessation of an explosive case.

background

Tage der Rache is a remake of a very successful BBC production called The Days Of Vengeance from 1960. The original script by Ted Willis and Edward J. Mason was translated into German by Peter Badenberg and adapted.

DVD release

Studio Hamburg Enterprises published Days of Vengeance on January 10, 2011 in a complete box together with the TV films Banktresor 713 , Nebel and The Last Holidays as part of the street sweeper series .

Web links

• Days of vengeance in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Vengeance Day at Fernsehserien.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The crime thriller homepage. Retrieved May 14, 2019 .