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Sieben Tage Frist

School of Fear
Seven Days Grace

West Germany 1969
produced by
Luggi Waldleitner, Erwin Gitt (executive) for Roxy Film
directed by Alfred Vohrer
starring Joachim Fuchsberger, Konrad Georg, Horst Tappert, Karin Hübner, Petra Schürmann, Hilde Brand, Bruno Dallansky, Paul Albert Krumm, Robert Meyn, Joachim Rake, Otto Stern, Wolfgang Stumpf, Frithjof Vierock, Arthur Richelmann, Gunther Beth, Peter Guntermann, Dagobert Walter, Till C. Hagen, Arno Jürging, Peter Frank, Horst Warning, Egon Schäfer, Paul Friedrichsen
screenplay by Manfred Purzer (as Ernst Flügel), based on the novel Sieben Tage Frist für Schramm by Paul Hendriks, music by Hans-Martin Majewski, cinematography by Ernst W. Kalinke

review by
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Young Kurrat (Arthur Richelmann) is pretty much untouchable at the private boarding school he's attending, so much so that he runs a prostitution racket, providing Lonny's (Hilde Brand) secret brothel with a steady stream of students from his school. This though means he's not exactly liked by the staff of his school, and when one day he teases a dog, one of his teachers, Fromm (Konrad Georg), loses his school and slaps him round the face - and that gets Kurrat's father (Otto Stern) onto the scene, a rich businessman and one of he school's patrons, who gives the whole staff a sound scolding, then asks to talk to Fromm alone, as there seems to have been some kind of recognition between the two. A few days later, the young Kurrat goes missing, and he has last been seen with Fromm. After it's decided not to call the police let alone Kurrat's father, Fromm and his colleague Hendriks (Joachim Fuchsberger) start an investigation of their own, and find all sorts of clues to Kurrat, but not Kurrat himself. But they learn that he was in a homosexual relationship with another teacher, Stallmann (Paul Albert Krumm) ... and then Stallmann dies. A police inspector, Klevenow (Horst Tappert) arrives on the scene to drop a bomb, Kurrat's father has gone missing as well - and he gives the entire school staff a sound scolding for not reporting the disappearance of Kurrat the younger to the police. At Stallmann's funeral, Hendriks and Klevenow spot Kurrat from afar and manage to capture him and bring him back to the school - where he's soon murdered. Likewise, his father's found murdered before long. But clues soon accumulate and they lead back to Fromm, who it turns out isn't Fromm at all but a former concentration camp "doctor" excelling in human experiments who has only assumed the identity of one of his "subjects" at the end of the war to escape capture - but Kurrat the older has recognized him and has given him 7 days to give himself up to the police ... seven days in which Fromm tried to kill all those who might know about his true identity.

 

On the plus side, this film looks rather amazing as it makes perfect use of its wintery seaside locations, and at times has an arthouse feel to it, even. On the downside though, despite its sensationalistic ending (having an ex-Nazi war criminal as baddie was not unheard of but not the norm in German movies yet in the late 1960s), the film's pretty much just a routine krimi, convoluted and full of clues and red herrings, with many of its narrative threads either under-developed or just thrown in as a diversion, and as sensationalistic as the solution might be, it's not worked towards but just tagged on and presented in a wordy explanation that's only remotely related to the action that came before. But of course, if you're into German whodunnits from back when, you've probably come to expect this already, and might actually get a kick out of seeing Joachim Fuchsberger and Horst Tappert, two of Alfred Vohrer's favourite investigators in his Edgar Wallace films, playing off one another for a change. So in all, nothing special, but krimi fans (like myself) will still get a kick out of this one.

 

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