The Vampire of Düsseldorf

1965 film

Georges Tabet
Claude Desailly
André Tabet
Robert Hossein^[3]

Produced by

Georges de Beauregard
Benito Perojo^[4]

Starring

Robert Hossein
Marie-France Pisier
Roger Dutoit
Annie Anderson

CinematographyAlain Levent^[5]Edited byMarie-Sophie Dubus^[4]Music byAndré Hossein^[5]

Production
companies

Rome-Paris Films
Producciónes Benito Perojo
Mega Film^[5]

Distributed by

Panta Cinematografica (Italy)^[4]

Release dates

7 April 1965 (1965-04-07) (France)^[1]
25 February 1966 (1966-02-25) (Spain)^[2]

Countries

Spain
France
Italy^[1]

LanguageFrench

The Vampire of Düsseldorf (French: Le Vampire de Düsseldorf) is a 1965 thriller film directed by Robert Hossein. It was joint production between Spain, France and Italy. The film was based on the life and crimes of German serial killer Peter Kürten.

Production

The Vampire of Düsseldorf was shot between September 28, 1964, and December 10, 1964.^[5]

Reception

Seeing the film at a preview screening in Paris, "Mosk." of Variety stated that Hossein had "wisely not tried to emulate M and that "Hossein obviously has seen and assimilated many of these pix and does not imitate but takes the ideas and aspects of the times. But this only a moderate suspense item, which may be an okay play-off item on its theme, with arty chances broad chancey."^[3]

References

^ ^a ^b "The Secret Killer". Unifrance.org. Retrieved May 11, 2020.
^ "Asesino de Dusseldorff, El" (in Spanish). The Spanish Film Catalogue. Retrieved May 11, 2020.
^ ^a ^b Mosk. 1983.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Le vampire de Düsseldorf [La belva di Dusseldorf] (1965)" (in Italian). Archiviodelcinemaitaliano.it. Retrieved May 11, 2020.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Le Vampire de Düsseldorf (1964) Robert Hossein" (in French). Bifi.fr. Retrieved May 11, 2020.

Sources

Mosk. (1983). Variety's Film Reviews 1964-1967. Vol. 11. R. R. Bowker. There are no page numbers in this book. This entry is found under the header "March 24, 1965". ISBN 0-8352-2790-1.