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Who is the murderer?

In this classic German thriller, Hans Beckert, a serial killer who preys on children, becomes the focus of a massive Berlin police manhunt. Beckert's heinous crimes are so repellant and disruptive to city life that he is even targeted by others in the seedy underworld network. With both cops and criminals in pursuit, the murderer soon realizes that people are on his trail, sending him into a tense, panicked attempt to escape justice.

Drama Thriller Crime

Peter Lorre

(Hans Beckert)

Ellen Widmann

(Frau Beckmann)

Inge Landgut

(Elsie Beckmann)

Otto Wernicke

(Inspector Karl Lohmann)

Theodor Loos

(Inspector Groeber)

Gustaf Gründgens

(Schränker)

Friedrich Gnaß

(Franz)

Fritz Odemar

(The Cheater)

Paul Kemp

(Pickpocket with Six Watches)

Theo Lingen

(Bauernfänger)

Rudolf Blümner

(Becker's 'Attorney')

Georg John

(Blind Panhandler)

Franz Stein

(Minister)

Ernst Stahl-Nachbaur

(Police Chief)

Gerhard Bienert

(Criminal Secretary)

Karl Platen

(Damowitz)

Rosa Valetti

(Bartender)

Hertha von Walther

(Prostitute)

Lucie Rhoden

(Secretary in the Police Archives)

Joseph Almas

((uncredited))

Carl Ballhaus

(Leeser, Man Who Marks Hans Beckert (uncredited))

Hans Behal

((uncredited))

Paul Biensfeldt

(Man Suspected in Street (uncredited))

Behal Carrell

((uncredited))

Josef Dahmen

((uncredited))

Hugo Döblin

((uncredited))

J.A. Eckhoff

((uncredited))

Else Ehser

(Woman (uncredited))

Karl Elzer

((uncredited))

Erwin Faber

((uncredited))

Ilse Fürstenberg

((uncredited))

Anna Goltz

(Woman (uncredited))

Heinrich Gotho

((uncredited))

Heinrich Gretler

(Man (uncredited))

Günther Hadank

((uncredited))

Robert Hartberg

((uncredited))

Ernst Paul Hempel

((uncredited))

Oskar Höcker

((uncredited))

Albert Hörrmann

((uncredited))

Ellen Isenta

(Woman (uncredited))

Karl Junge-Swinburne

(Man (uncredited))

Albert Karchow

((uncredited))

Werner Kepich

((uncredited))

Hermann Krehan

((uncredited))

Kurth Leeser

((uncredited))

Rose Lichtenstein

((uncredited))

Lotte Loebinger

(Woman (uncredited))

Sigurd Lohde

((uncredited))

Alfred Loretto

(Man (uncredited))

Hanna Maron

(Girl in Circle at the Beginning (uncredited))

Max Maschek

((uncredited))

Paul Mederow

(Public Prosecutor (uncredited))

Margarete Melzer

((uncredited))

Trude Moos

((uncredited))

Hadrian Maria Netto

(Police Captain (uncredited))

Neumann-Schüler

(Bit Role (uncredited))

Günter Neumann

(Man (uncredited))

Katharina Nied

(Woman (uncredited))

Maya Norden

((uncredited))

Fred Nurney

(Man (uncredited))

Edgar Pauly

(Man (uncredited))

Klaus Pohl

(Witness / One-Eyed Man (uncredited))

Franz Poland

((uncredited))

Eduard Rebane

(Man (uncredited))

Paul Rehkopf

((uncredited))

Bertold Reissig

(Man (uncredited))

Ernst Rhaden

(Man (uncredited))

Hans Ritter

((uncredited))

Max Sablotzki

(Man (uncredited))

Alexander Sascha

((uncredited))

Agnes Schulz-Lichterfeld

((uncredited))

Leonard Steckel

(Man (uncredited))

Karl-Heinz Stroux

((uncredited))

Wolf Trutz

((uncredited))

Otto Waldis

((uncredited))

Borwin Walth

((uncredited))

Rolf Wanka

(Man (uncredited))

Ernst Wulf

((uncredited))

Bruno Ziener

((uncredited))