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The Sinister Monk

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A hooded serial killer finds a novel way to murder his victims--he lashes them to death with a whip. The police try to track him down before any more murders occur.

Status: Released

Released Date: 1965-12-17

Runtime: 87 mins

Director: Harald Reinl

Spoken language: Deutsch

Genres: Crime, Thriller, Mystery

Original title: The Sinister Monk

Production Companies: Rialto Film

Production Countries: Germany

Cast

Karin Dor

Harald Leipnitz

Siegfried Lowitz

Siegfried Schürenberg

Ilse Steppat

Dieter Eppler

Hartmut Reck

Kurt Waitzmann

Rudolf Schündler

Kurd Pieritz

Uta Levka

Dunja Rajter

Susanne Juhnke

Uschi Glas

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