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The Laughing Man (1966)
Directed by Walter Heynowski, Gerhard Scheumann
“Confessions Of A Murderer”
Documentary · 1h 06m
Posing as West German journalists, East German documentary filmmakers Heynowski and Scheumann pay a visit to the notorious Nazi-turned-mercenary Siegfried “Kongo” Müller, pump him with booze, and get him to talk about his life and war campaigns in Africa.
Cast
Crew
- Director
- Walter Heynowski, Gerhard Scheumann
- Writer
- Walter Heynowski, Gerhard Scheumann
- Editor
- Traute Wischnewski
- Producer
- Jochen Stoff
Details
- Original title
- Der lachende Mann - Bekenntnisse eines Mörders
- Release date
- 1966-02-09
- Runtime
- 1h 06m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- DE
- Spoken languages
- German
- Countries
- East Germany
- Production
- Fernsehen der DDR, DEFA-Studio für Dokumentarfilme