When Night Falls on the Reeperbahn

When Night Falls on the Reeperbahn (German: Wenn es Nacht wird auf der Reeperbahn) is a 1967 West German crime film directed by Rolf Olsen and starring Erik Schumann, Fritz Wepper and Konrad Georg. It was shot at the Tempelhof Studios in Berlin and on location around Hamburg. The role played by Konrad Georg was modelled on a similar one he played in the television series Kommissar Freytag.

When Night Falls on the Reeperbahn
German film poster
German	Wenn es Nacht wird auf der Reeperbah
Directed by	Rolf Olsen
Written by	Rolf Olsen
Produced by	Heinz Willeg
Starring	Erik Schumann Fritz Wepper Konrad Georg
Cinematography	Franz Xaver Lederle
Edited by	Renate Willeg
Music by	Erwin Halletz
Production company	Allianz Filmproduktion
Distributed by	Constantin Film
Release date	12 October 1967 (1967-10-12)
Running time	98 minutes
Country	West Germany
Language	German

The film was a commercial success and over the next few years Olsen directed several further Hamburg-set crime films, many of them starring Curd Jürgens.

Cast

• Erik Schumann as Danny Sonntag
• Fritz Wepper as Till Voss
• Marianne Hoffmann as Lotti Norkus
• Jürgen Draeger as Feuer-Hotte
• Konrad Georg as Hauptkommissar Zinner
• Marlies Dräger as Karin
• Heinz Reincke as Uwe Wagenknecht
• Herbert Tiede as Wilhelm Voss, general manager
• Karl Lieffen as Karlchen Dincke
• Tanja Gruber as Pinky Schön
• Willi Rose as Mumps
• Gabriele Scharon as Margot
• Friedrich Schütter as Dr. Buding
• Rudolf Schündler as Hanns Henningsen, manager
• Brigitte Schacht as Brigitte Trautmann
• Frank Nossack as Volker
• Joachim Richert as Frank
• Günter Lüdke as Jens Paulsen, commissioner
• Dieter Wagner as Manfred Nagel, director
• Erni Mangold as Wanda
• Günter Glaser as Papadopoulos
• Horst Hesslein as Bouncer at Puff
• Rolf Olsen as Arzt
• Alexander Paris as Jürgen
• Marina Ried as Marthe Henningsen
• Hans Waldherr as Raufbold in Nachtclub
• Verena Wiet as Sybille Voss

External links

• When Night Falls on the Reeperbahn at IMDb