The Shadows Grow Longer (1961)

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The Shadows Grow Longer on IMDb 7.0/10 12 votes

Released:
1961-08-11

Overview:
Christa Andres runs a home for troubled girls. With great dedication, she tries to help girls who have gone astray return to a normal life. She takes special care of Erika, who works as a prostitute and one day runs away from the home. Christa sets out to search for the girl in the red-light district. In doing so, she is haunted by the shadows of her own past. The educator herself used to work as a prostitute. When she meets her former pimp, he tries to exploit his knowledge in a perfidious way and blackmail Christa...

Director:
Ladislao Vajda

Runtime:
1h 31min

Genre:
Drama

  • Cast:
  • Barbara Rütting
    as
    Christa Andres
  • Loni von Friedl
    as
    Erika Schöner
  • Hansjörg Felmy
    as
    Max
  • Luise Ullrich
    as
    Frau Diethelm
  • Fred Tanner
    as
    Dr. Borner