Potassium cyanide (1948)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Potassium cyanide |
| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1948 |
| length | 89, 91 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Harald Röbbeling |
| script | Harald Röbbeling |
| production | Savoy film, Vienna |
| music | Willy Schmidt-Gentner |
| camera | Walter Riml |
| cut | Blanka Michaelis |
| occupation | |
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Cyanide is an Austrian detective drama with film noir -elements from 1948. Directed by Harald Röbbeling play Siegfried Breuer , Maria Andergast and Rudolf Prack the leading roles.
action
Dr. Frank Morava, a former forensic chemist, is an ambitious middle-aged man. He is completely absorbed in his curiosity to research to develop a serum against a rare disease. He invests all of his assets in this. When Morava's money is used up, he doesn't shy away from an act of violence. He robbed a drug dealer who made a fortune with his misdeeds, and then poisoned him. With the money, Dr. Morava is now continuing his research.
The chemist developed more and more criminal energy, because soon he also murdered a former student colleague and forged a suicide note in which the deceased confessed to Morava's first murder and further admitted that he had stolen the money from the dead drug dealer. However, Morava's assistant soon suspects that something is wrong with her boss and informs the criminal investigation department. Police Commissioner Tanner, an old friend of Morava, is appointed to the case. Through his investigations, he can convict the chemist as a double murderer. When Tanner wants to arrest Morava, he evades justice and takes cyanide.
Production notes
Cyanide was created in the second half of 1947 and was premiered on May 26, 1948 in Vienna. The German premiere took place on December 1, 1949 in Karlsruhe.
Fritz Mögle designed the film structures, Heinz Hansen took over the production management. The very young Ernst Hofbauer served as a prop master for this film.
Reviews
Paimann's film lists found that the good motive for this film was a "but unsuccessful alibi for this ... rumored story".
The lexicon of the international film saw the strip only as a "routine product."
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cyanide in Paimann's film lists ( memento of the original from January 3, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Potassium cyanide. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed January 1, 2018 .
Web links
- Cyanide in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Potassium cyanide at filmportal.de