Movielogr
The Shadows Grow Longer (1961)
Directed by Ladislao Vajda
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…
Length 91 minutes
Actors
Barbara Rütting | Loni von Friedl | Hansjörg Felmy | Luise Ullrich | Fred Tanner | Carola Rasch | Margot Medicus | Helga Sommerfeld | Iris Erdmann | Renja Gill | Elisabeth Roth | Gabriele Adam | Heidi Pawellek | Brit von Thiesenhausen | Michael Paryla | Mathilde Schmitz | Lee Ruckstuhl | Anneliese Betschart | Hans Gaugler | Hedda Ippen | Johannes Killert | Oskar Hoby | Bella Neri | Erika Wolf | Saskia van Hoogstraten | Nicola von Huetschler | Ulrike Laurence | Sabine von Oertzen | Kathi Scheck | Susanne Schoch | Isabelle Carlson | Yvette Taeuber | Max Werner Lenz | Lou Seitz