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Los verdugos también mueren

Título original: Hangmen Also Die!
  • 1943
  • Approved
  • 2h 14min
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Brian Donlevy and Anna Lee in Los verdugos también mueren (1943)
Film NoirPolitical ThrillerDramaThrillerWar

Después de que disparan contra el administrador nazi de Checquia, su asesino intenta eludir a la Gestapo y lucha con su impulso de entregarse mientras se ejecuta a los rehenes.Después de que disparan contra el administrador nazi de Checquia, su asesino intenta eludir a la Gestapo y lucha con su impulso de entregarse mientras se ejecuta a los rehenes.Después de que disparan contra el administrador nazi de Checquia, su asesino intenta eludir a la Gestapo y lucha con su impulso de entregarse mientras se ejecuta a los rehenes.

  • Dirección
    • Fritz Lang
  • Guionistas
    • John Wexley
    • Bertolt Brecht
    • Fritz Lang
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    • Brian Donlevy
    • Walter Brennan
    • Anna Lee
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  • CALIFICACIÓN DE IMDb
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    • Dirección
      • Fritz Lang
    • Guionistas
      • John Wexley
      • Bertolt Brecht
      • Fritz Lang
    • Elenco
      • Brian Donlevy
      • Walter Brennan
      • Anna Lee
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      • 2 premios ganados y 3 nominaciones en total

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    Brian Donlevy
    Brian Donlevy
    • Dr. Franticek Svoboda (Karel Vanek)
    Walter Brennan
    Walter Brennan
    • Prof. Stepan Novotny
    Anna Lee
    Anna Lee
    • Mascha Novotny
    Gene Lockhart
    Gene Lockhart
    • Emil Czaka
    Dennis O'Keefe
    Dennis O'Keefe
    • Jan Horak
    Alexander Granach
    Alexander Granach
    • Gestapo Inspector Alois Gruber
    Margaret Wycherly
    Margaret Wycherly
    • Ludmilla Novotny
    Tonio Selwart
    Tonio Selwart
    • Chief of Gestapo Kurt Haas
    Jonathan Hale
    Jonathan Hale
    • Dedic
    Nana Bryant
    Nana Bryant
    • Mrs. Hellie Novotny
    William Roy
    • Beda Novotny
    • (as Billy Roy)
    Hans Heinrich von Twardowski
    Hans Heinrich von Twardowski
    • Reinhard Heydrich
    • (as H. H v. Twardowski)
    Lionel Stander
    Lionel Stander
    • Banya
    Sarah Padden
    Sarah Padden
    • Mrs. Georgia Dvorak
    Edmund MacDonald
    Edmund MacDonald
    • Dr. Pillar
    Byron Foulger
    Byron Foulger
    • Bartos
    Ludwig Donath
    Ludwig Donath
    • Schirmer
    • (as Louis Donath)
    George Irving
    George Irving
    • Necval
    • Dirección
      • Fritz Lang
    • Guionistas
      • John Wexley
      • Bertolt Brecht
      • Fritz Lang
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    9HotToastyRag

    Wonderfully directed

    In case you can't tell from the title, Hangmen Also Die! Is a very heavy film. It's one of those underground resistance movies made during the height of WWII, and it's incredibly powerful even now after we know we've won the war. There were many of this sub-genre made during the time period before an Allied victory was assumed, and they all captured a very scary feeling. Stick together, trust no one, and be prepared to give your life so your children won't have to live in a German-speaking world.

    This movie takes place in Czechoslovakia, during the Nazi occupation with strict curfews and rules against congregation. However, there's a man out when he shouldn't be, running around where he shouldn't be. He kills a Nazi soldier, and just when he's about to be captured, a young woman who watched the incident does a small act of kindness. She lies to the pursuing guards and points them in the wrong direction, buying the man some time. Little does she know she's opened her entire family to scrutiny and changed everyone's lives forever.

    Brian Donlevy is the man on the run, and Anna Lee is the woman who saves him. He believes he can trust her, so he seeks refuge for the night in her home as an alibi. Her father, Walter Brennan, and her mother Nana Bryant, are against the idea, knowing it will get them into trouble - but they're already in too deep to turn back. So, Brian stays the night and the family tries to come up with a plausible story that will keep everyone out of trouble. Sure enough, the Gestapo find out and question them, headed by the ruthless interrogator Alexander Granach.

    Fritz Lang's fantastic direction keeps a fast pace that never lets you catch your breath. Everyone in the cast is uncharacteristically intense, giving some of their best performances - and I can't help but give credit to Lang as well. When the entire cast is at the top of their game, the director has usually given his all, too. Brian Donlevy is usually a villain, Walter Brennan is usually a crotchety hick, Gene Lockhart is usually genial, and Alexander Granach made very few talkies after his successful silent career. Partly because of these against-type performances, and partly because of the suspenseful script, the movie constantly surprises. This is not easy to watch, but it's worth it if you can.
    7tyguy-2

    Top notch WWII drama

    This is loosely based on the true story of a member of the Czech underground assasinating the nazi regional governer, a ruthless fellow they call 'the Hangman'. The story revolves around the assasin and the family that unknowingly hid him from the gestapo. When questioned by the gestapo, the family says the guy was there to see their daughter, who happens to be engaged to another fine gentleman. So this little situation complicates the story, as the gestapo detective,a very ruthless chap, tries to catch them in the lie. From there the story moves along in chilling fashion when 400 townfolks are rounded up to be executed in groups of 10 each day until the assasin is turned in. This causes people to question their inner strength and makes them wonder if it is worth it to sacrifice themselves to keep him hidden. The story gets resolves in a very clever way which I will not reveal. The movie has that film noir/Hitchkockian feel to it with the protagonist being chased down and making clever escapes by the skin of his teeth. Although the movie drags a bit here and there, it ends up being a worthwhile suspenseful drama and also makes you think a bit about what would you do if you were put in that situation.
    7FISHCAKE

    Good anti-nazi propaganda, but not good history.

    One suspects this film registered better with viewers in 1943 than it does today. Despite being suggested by the actual assassination of Reichs Protector of Bohemia and Moravia Reinhard Heydrich, better known to the Czechs as "The Hangman" because of his excessive brutality in dealing with residents of the conquered regions, it is almost total fiction. Even so it is not bad as a rather involved drama and was very likely good anti-nazi propaganda.

    Perhaps it is well to start with what actually did happen to Heydrich on May 29, 1942. Two young Czechs, Jan Kubis and Josef Ganchik, parachuted in from an RAF plane and managed to ambush "the Hangman" riding in his open Mercedes. Armed with both machine pistols and a bomb, the apparently did little harm by shooting, but did explode the bomb under the car. Heydrich's spleen was penetrated by bomb fragments and debris causing death several days later, possibly more by infection than anything else. The two Czechs evaded capture briefly, but witnesses under torture revealed their hiding place in a church and the SS killed them. In a massive retaliation, Hitler picked the village of Lidice, more or less at random, from among places known to harbor anti-German sentiment, and ordered its total annihilation. The people of Lidice had nothing whatever to do with the assassination, of course.

    In HANGMEN ALSO DIE we have the story of a lone assassin, using an English made pistol, whose getaway taxi was forced to move by German soldiers, causing him to take refuge during the curfew at the home of a Czech professor. The professor's daughter, Mascha, had impulsively directed the German pursuit away from him. The German police suspect the girl, but release her in the hope she will lead them to the wanted man. They also round up many Czechs, including the girl's father, and begin shooting them as hostages. The girl at first intends to give information, hoping to save her father, but in the end is persuaded otherwise by the Czech resistance. A plan is concocted to bamboozle the SS and save the assassin and the girl, but what it is you will have to see for yourself. Be assured it is incredible.

    As you see, this story has little to do with the historic assassination and its aftermath, beyond illustrating the SS brutality, but it does make a mildly entertaining wartime adventure with good propaganda value, largely because of the rather low key, intensely personal nature of the plot elements. Some of the characters are very real and believable, e.g. the Gestapo Inspector Gruber, the girl Mascha, and her father, all ably portrayed by Alexander Granach, Anna Lee, and Walter Brennan respectively. On the other hand, some characters are more like cardboard cut-outs and get wooden performances to suit. Brian Donlevy as Dr.Svoboda, the assassin, fits this category alas, as do a number of others. What realism there is seems likely to have been the contribution of Bertolt Brecht rather than John Wexley, who got the credit for the screenplay. One likes to think that Fritz Lang did the best he could with a mixed bag of acting talent, but this can hardly be said to be his best effort.

    Just why Hollywood producers seem to prefer fiction to the facts when dealing with historical material is a major mystery to me. In 1943 the general facts of the assassination were known, if not all the details, and could have made just as dramatic a story as this fictional one. It is worth a watch, though, especially if you like Anna Lee.
    7Bunuel1976

    HANGMEN ALSO DIE! (Fritz Lang, 1943) ***

    One of a handful of propaganda films made by Hollywood during WWII to show how various occupied European countries dealt with the situation; similar films included THE MOON IS DOWN (1941), EDGE OF DARKNESS (1943), THE NORTH STAR (1943) and THIS LAND IS MINE (1943). This one, however, differs from these in that it tackles a real-life event i.e. the assassination of Heydrich - dubbed "The Hangman" (his assassination was the subject of two more films, the contemporaneous HITLER'S MADMAN [1943] and OPERATION DAYBREAK [1975]) - and is further elevated by the contribution of two important figures of pre-war German art, director Lang and writer Bertolt Brecht.

    It also features a great cast (mostly delivering excellent performances, but is saddled with a miscast and rather stiff Brian Donlevy in the lead): Walter Brennan and Gene Lockhart are featured in overly familiar roles but their contribution is, as ever, reliable and entirely welcome; best of all, perhaps, are Anna Lee and Alexander Granach; beloved character actor Dwight Frye (most familiar to horror-film buffs) appears here in one of his last roles but, as was generally the case, is regrettably given only a couple of lines!

    Long and heavy-going, with the propagandist element coming off as fairly corny now, but the film is held firmly together by Lang's fine direction and James Wong Howe's superb noir-ish lighting (the Region 1 DVD by Kino was eventually re-issued as part of a 5-Disc Noir set). It also involves a couple of scuffles which are quite tense and energetic (Granach's death scene is especially striking), while the last third resorts to the organized frame-up by the Czechs of a traitor in their midst (collaborationist Lockhart) - which, in itself, is no less frightening an act than the heinous persecution of the Nazi regime!

    I'm confused, however, about the film's running-time: the print I watched ran for 129 minutes in PAL mode (which would bring it to about 134 minutes when converted to NTSC); even so, it contains the ending missing from the DVDs released in Regions 1 and 2 which, being the same version i.e. cut and having the same length (134 minutes), would indicate that the Kino edition is a PAL conversion - which means a full running-time of 139 minutes (a minute short of the 'official' length, as per Lotte Eisner's book on Lang)! To make matters worse, both the Leslie Halliwell and Leonard Maltin film guides I own cite HANGMEN ALSO DIE! as being 131 minutes long!!
    9eh46637-1

    Why great directors make great films

    The actors in this film made any number of cheesy B movies during the war, but with Berthold Brecht and Fritz Lang behind them they made a movie touching on greatness. Check out the characterizations of Heydrich, the policeman Gruber, and the other Gestapo agents. Walter Brennan as the patriotic father was an odd choice, but maybe I'm being blinded by his later Western sidekick roles. The sets are outstanding. Although obviously on a Hollywood back lot they made a very believable Prague, using in part pre-war travelogue footage of the city. Indoor scenes are excellent. The actors look like they live in a real place, not a cuckooland paradise that most hack directors would give you.

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    • Trivia
      During the Joseph McCarthy-inspired "Red Scare" era in the 1950s, this was one of the films labeled subversive by the HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee) because it was alleged to have contained dialogue that might be construed as pro-communist. Writer John Wexley was even blacklisted. It wasn't seen again in the United States until the mid-1970s.
    • Errores
      In reality, Heydrich was assassinated by a team of Czech exiles sent back to the country by the British government.
    • Citas

      Czech Patriot: Your mothers were slimy rats! Their milk was sewer water!

    • Créditos curiosos
      The end of the film reads "NOT The End".
    • Versiones alternativas
      OPENING CREDIT ON 2012 RESTORATION: "Restored in 2012 by the Restoration Department Pinewood Studios UK utilising the best of the surviving archive film elements that included some original 1943 nitrate. With thanks to the BFI National Archive for preserving and supplying original film material."
    • Conexiones
      Featured in Hooray for Holyrood (1986)
    • Bandas sonoras
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      (The Moldau) (uncredited)

      From "Má vlast (My Country)"

      Music by Bedrich Smetana

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      Also played on the radio during dinner

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    • Fecha de lanzamiento
      • 30 de septiembre de 1943 (México)
    • País de origen
      • Estados Unidos
    • Idiomas
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      • Alemán
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      2 horas 14 minutos
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      • Black and White
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