The Shadows Grow Longer

The Shadows Grow Longer

1961/08/11 • Released • German

Drama
5.0
1h 31m

Overview

Christa Andres runs a home for troubled girls. With great dedication, she tries to help girls who have gone astray return to a normal life. She takes special care of Erika, who works as a prostitute and one day runs away from the home. Christa sets out to search for the girl in the red-light district. In doing so, she is haunted by the shadows of her own past. The educator herself used to work as a prostitute. When she meets her former pimp, he tries to exploit his knowledge in a perfidious way and blackmail Christa...

Director : Ladislao Vajda

Casts
Barbara Rütting

Barbara Rütting

Christa Andres

Loni von Friedl

Loni von Friedl

Erika Schöner

Hansjörg Felmy

Hansjörg Felmy

Max

Luise Ullrich

Luise Ullrich

Frau Diethelm

Fred Tanner

Dr. Borner

Carola Rasch

Bessie

Margot Medicus

Barbara

Helga Sommerfeld

Helga Sommerfeld

Helene

Iris Erdmann

Hilde

Renja Gill

Anni

Elisabeth Roth

Steffi

Gabriele Adam

Vera

Heidi Pawellek

Paula

Brit von Thiesenhausen

Ruth

Michael Paryla

Fritz Schmoll

Mathilde Schmitz

Frau Hüni

Lee Ruckstuhl

Fräulein Busch

Anneliese Betschart

Annis Stiefmutter

Hans Gaugler

Annis Vater

Hedda Ippen

Barbaras Mutter

Johannes Killert

Barbaras Vater

Oskar Hoby

Helenes Vater

Bella Neri

Schulmädchen

Erika Wolf

Schulmädchen

Saskia van Hoogstraten

Nicola von Huetschler

Ulrike Laurence

Sabine von Oertzen

Kathi Scheck

Susanne Schoch

Isabelle Carlson

Yvette Taeuber

Max Werner Lenz

Lou Seitz

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