''Via Mala'' is a 1961 West German
drama film
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super ...
directed by
Paul May
Paul May (8 May 1909 – 25 February 1976) was a German film director and editor. He directed 40 films between 1935 and 1972.
Biography
He was the son of Peter Ostermayr, a film producer with Universum Film AG, and his wife Olga, ''né ...
and starring
Gert Fröbe,
Joachim Hansen and
Christine Kaufmann
Christine Maria Kaufmann (; 11 January 1945 – 28 March 2017) was a German-Austrian actress, author, and businesswoman. The daughter of a German father and a French mother, she won the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actress f ...
.
[Reimer & Reimer p. 118] It is an adaptation of the 1934 novel ''
Via Mala'' by
John Knittel
John Knittel, originally Hermann Emanuel Knittel (March 24, 1891 in Dharwar, India – April 26, 1970 in Maienfeld, Graubünden) was a Swiss writer.
Life
John Knittel was the son of a Württemberg missionary, Hermann Wilhelm Knittel, who was i ...
, which had previously been
made into a film in 1945. After a tyrannical father in a small Swiss village is killed, almost everyone he knows comes under suspicion of having murdered him.
Cast
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1961 films
West German films
German drama films
German black-and-white films
1961 drama films
1960s German-language films
Films about domestic violence
Films based on Swiss novels
Films based on works by John Knittel
Films directed by Paul May
Films set in Switzerland
Films set in the Alps
Remakes of German films
Gloria Film films
1960s German films
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