''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.

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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 {{1960s-Germany-film-stub