''The Fifth Commandment'' ( it, L'alba dei falsi dei, german: Das fünfte Gebot) is a 1978 Italian-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
Duccio Tessari
Duccio Tessari (11 October 1926 – 6 September 1994) was an Italian director, screenwriter and actor, considered one of the fathers of Spaghetti Westerns.
Born in Genoa, Tessari started in the fifties as documentarist and as screenwriter of pe ...
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Cast
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Helmut Berger
Helmut Berger (; born Helmut Steinberger; 29 May 1944) is an Austrian actor, known for his portrayal of narcissistic and sexually-ambiguous characters. He was one of the stars of the European cinema in the late 1960s and 1970s, and is regarded a ...
as Bernhard Redder
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Peter Hooten
John Peter Hooten (born November 29, 1950) is an American actor. He is best known for playing the title character in the television film '' Dr. Strange'' (1978).
Career
Hooten started acting in 1968 at the age of 17. He appeared as an uncredited ...
as Leo Redder
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Evelyne Kraft
Evelyne Kraft (22 September 1951 – 13 January 2009) was a Swiss businesswoman and former actress. She was best known for her roles in the films ''Lady Dracula'' and ''The Mighty Peking Man''.
Background
Born in Zürich, Switzerland on 22 Sept ...
as Evelyn Pages
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Umberto Orsini
Umberto Orsini (born 2 April 1934, in Novara) is an Italian stage, television and film actor.
Born in Novara, Orsini gave up his career as notary to attend the Accademia Nazionale di Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico. In the late 1950s, he emerged ...
as Vater Redder
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Udo Kier
Udo Kierspe (born 14 October 1944), known professionally as Udo Kier, is a German actor. Known primarily as a character actor, Kier has appeared in more than 220 films in both leading and supporting roles throughout Europe and the Americas. He h ...
as Peter Dümmel
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Kurt Zips as Atsche Kummer
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Heinrich Giskes Heinrich may refer to:
People
* Heinrich (given name), a given name (including a list of people with the name)
* Heinrich (surname), a surname (including a list of people with the name)
*Hetty (given name), a given name (including a list of peo ...
as Rudi Linnemann
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Lorella De Luca as Mutter Redder
References
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1978 films
1978 crime drama films
Films about brothers
Films directed by Duccio Tessari
Films scored by Armando Trovajoli
Films set in Germany
Films set in the 1920s
German crime drama films
Italian crime drama films
West German films
Constantin Film films
1970s Italian films
1970s German films
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