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Es geschah am hellichten Tag (English: It Happened in Broad Daylight) is a 1958 German-language thriller film directed by Ladislao Vajda. The original screenplay was written by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, a Swiss playwright and novelist, and the first incarnation of the film is still acclaimed by critics.
It Happened in Broad Daylight: Directed by Ladislao Vajda. With Heinz Rühmann, Sigfrit Steiner, Siegfried Lowitz, Michel Simon. Having doubts about the guilt of the obvious suspect in the murder of an eight year old girl, a police detective decides to investigate the case on his own.
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Jun 18, 2019 · El Cebo / It Happened in Broad Daylight (1958) Trailer. Dir. Ladislao VajdaStars: Heinz Rühmann, Sigfrit Steiner, Siegfried Lowitz, Gert Fröbe Having doubts about the guilt of the obvious...
Ladislao Vajda’s Es geschah am hellichten Tag (US: It Happened In Broad Daylight) is a perfectly symmetrical bookend to German film noir: both Vajda’s 1958 film and Fritz Lang’s German expressionist, proto-noir masterpiece M (1931) more than a quarter-century earlier center on the hunt for a serial murderer of little girls.
A little girl's ruthless murder sparks a police inspector to put aside personal gain to apprehend her deranged killer.
With It Happened in Broad Daylight, though, there's a sort of matter-of-fact competence that's so all-encompassing it's often hard to see clearly enough to discuss. At its most basic level, the film is a thriller — a long, serious SVU episode about the serial targeting and murder of young girls.
