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Madness Rules (1947) Plot Summary Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1947 · 96 mins · German
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- Directed by
- Leopold Lindtberg
- Starring
- Sigfrit Steiner, Hugo Döblin, Mathilde Danegger, Fritz Delius, Zarli Carigiet, Heinrich Gretler
Leopold Lindtberg, who revived post‑war Swiss cinema, co‑adapted Friedrich Glauser’s novel Matto Regiert. Heinrich Gretler returns as Police Constable Studer, now probing the murder of an asylum director. The chief suspect is manic‑depressive patient Herbert Caplaun, though the film adds a romantic subplot with nurse Irma Wasem.
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