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Release year: 1962

Storyline

A serial killer is on the run, after escaping a mental institution. He befriends a woman and her child, but the urge to strangle women with red necklaces still haunts him.

Top credits

Directors

Wolfgang Schleif

Writers

Cast

Klaus Kinski — Martin
Brigitte Grothum — Katrin
Marina Petrova — Anna
Sieghardt Rupp — Karl

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Did you know

• This film was considered lost for about 40 years, it resurfaced in March 2002.

• According to his autobiography Kinski Uncut, Klaus Kinski had an on-set sexual affair with his co-lead "Claudia" (clearly Brigitte Grothum, who was then married to the conductor of the Berlin Radio Philharmonic Carl August Bünte) during the Vienna shoot: "We have to swallow drops for our circulation because between takes we slump in our chairs like two cripples, unable even to eat. This is because, aside from acting, we do nothing but fuck." The affair continued during the shooting of The Inn on the River (1962): "In Travemiinde we try to get to the beach at least for a couple of hours just to clear our lungs. But when Claudia, who's not wearing panties, spreads her legs in front of me in the beach chair, we head back to our rooming house and don't get out of bed until Monday morning." Then 'Claudia' got pregnant:"Her husband can calculate that the baby can't be his. Today I get together with Claudia for the last time. We want to try not to see each other anymore." Grothum and Bünte divorced in 1965. The actress has always said that she was a great friend of Kinski and that she spent a lot of time together during filming. When asked in 2015 if Kinski tried to have a sexual relationship with her, she replied, laughing, "Let's keep quiet about that."

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