When Darkness Falls
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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.
Status: Released
Released Date: 1960-12-26
Runtime: 113 mins
Director: Arne Mattsson
Spoken language: svenska
Genres: Crime
Original title: When Darkness Falls
Production Companies: Sandrews
Production Countries: Sweden
Cast
Karl-Arne Holmsten
Nils Asther
Birgitta Pettersson
George Fant
Elsa Prawitz
Adolf Jahr
Mimi Nelson
Sif Ruud
Hjördis Petterson
Bengt Brunskog
Eva Sjöström
Sigge Fürst
Maritta Marke
John Melin
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