Using his status as a police informant to procure his victims, baby-faced, shaven-headed Fritz Haarmann dismembers their bodies after death and sells the flesh to restaurants, dumping the re... Read allUsing his status as a police informant to procure his victims, baby-faced, shaven-headed Fritz Haarmann dismembers their bodies after death and sells the flesh to restaurants, dumping the remainder out of sight.Using his status as a police informant to procure his victims, baby-faced, shaven-headed Fritz Haarmann dismembers their bodies after death and sells the flesh to restaurants, dumping the remainder out of sight.
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Fritz' neighbor is hearing strange chopping noises in the night--- she does not like his way of bringing strange boys to the apartment. Suspicious, she contacts the police, who basically patronize her, until the murders become so numerous that they are impossible to ignore any longer. Go see this film. It is a truly disturbing experience.
Highly recommended (if you can stomach the content).
Did you know
- TriviaListed as one of the 1,000 movies that will change your life in the book by TimeOut.
- GoofsThe US military general at the police station mentioned "Nazi". The term "Nazi" wasn't coined until 1926 when Joseph Goebbels published a pamphlet. Previously, the organization was called NSDAP. The film took place in the early 1920s with the exact reference to 1925 at the end of the film.
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Insp. Fritz Haarmann: Take my little life. I am not afraid of death through the axe of the hangman. It is my salvation. I am happy to give my death and my blood for atonement into God's arms and justice. It could've been 30, but also 40. I don't know. There are victims that you don't know about. But they are not the ones you're thinking of. They were the most beautiful ones I had.
- Crazy credits"Mein Tod und Blut gebe ich gern zur Sühne in Gottes Arme und Gerechtigkeit" Fritz Haarmann (I will gladly give my death and blood as a reparation into the arms of god and justice)
- ConnectionsEdited into Ulli Lommel's Zodiac Killer (2005)
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- Tenderness of the Wolves
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- Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany(street scenes)
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- DEM 250,000 (estimated)