Angels Who Burn Their Wings

Angels Who Burn Their Wings

Jealously, obsession, murder!

1970 · 93 min · ★ 6.4 · Romance, Crime, Drama

Munich at night: Robert Susmeit, a 16-year-old teenager who is jealously obsessed with his mother Hilde, traces her and her latest lover at a mundane apartment building where he kills the man in the heat of the moment at a swimming pool. His fatal outburst is secretly witnessed by Moni Dingeldey, a girl of the same age as his. Fascinated by the shaken and devastated strange boy who she hopes to be a soul-mate, she hides Robert in her mother's apartment. Meanwhile, a crowd of policemen and reporters frantically comb through the building in search a murderer whose identity is known only to Robert's parents who are searching as well...

Directed by Zbyněk Brynych · Written by Herbert Reinecker

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Jan Koester Robert Susmeit
Nadja Tiller Hilde Susmeit
Susanne Uhlen Moni Dingeldey
Siegfried Rauch 1. Commissioner
Ellen Umlauf Mrs. Dingeldey
Harald Baerow Wallich
Jochen Busse Kirr
Manfred Spies Krüss
Karl-Otto Alberty 2. Commissioner
Liane Hielscher Elvira Schramm
Hertha von Walther Mrs. Kuhn
Wolfgang Völz Mr. Stein

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