When Darkness Falls (1960)
När mörkret faller
A film with atmosphere and condensed mystery.
Young Elisabeth comes to Västlinge to meet her old relative, the vicar and and his young daughter. She is going to spend the Christmas there in peace and quiet but on Christmas Eve, the grocer is brutally murdered with an axe. Police inspector Christer Wijk comes to the small village to find the murderer. He soon discovers the puzzle of evidence that makes almost everybody a suspect.
- Date of release
- 1960-12-26
- TMDB
- 5.6 / 10 (11)
- Runtime
- 1h 53m
- Genres
- Crime
- Director
- Arne Mattsson
Casting
- Karl-Arne Holmsten — Christer Wijk
- Nils Asther — Vicar Tord Ekstedt
- Birgitta Pettersson — Elisabeth Rydén
- George Fant — Arne Sandell
- Elsa Prawitz — Barbara Sandell
- Adolf Jahr — Connie Lundgren
- Mimi Nelson — Hjördis Holm
- Sif Ruud — Frideborg Jansson
- Hjördis Petterson — Tekla Motander
- Bengt Brunskog — Mårten Gustavsson
- Eva Sjöström — Susanne Motander
- Sigge Fürst — Docent Ahlgren
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