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1970

Angels Who Burn Their Wings

Directed by Zbyněk Brynych
Jealously, obsession, murder!

Munich at night: Robert Susmeit, a 16-year-old teenager who is jealously obsessed with his mother Hilde, traces her and her latest lover at a mundane apartment building where he kills the man in the heat of the moment at a swimming pool. His fatal outburst is secretly witnessed by Moni Dingeldey, a girl of the same age as his. Fascinated by the shaken and devastated strange boy who she hopes to be a soul-mate, she hides Robert in her mother's apartment. Meanwhile, a crowd of policemen and reporters frantically comb through the building in search a murderer whose identity is known only to Robert's parents who are searching as well...

Duration

1h 33m

Released

September 18, 1970

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Cast15

  • Jan Koester
  • Nadja Tiller
  • Susanne Uhlen
  • Siegfried Rauch
  • Ellen Umlauf
  • Harald Baerow
  • Jochen Busse
  • Manfred Spies
  • Karl-Otto Alberty

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