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Ulli Lommel

Die Zärtlichkeit der Wölfe (Tenderness of the Wolves)

Edition 1974
- 1973 - Crime, Drama, Biography - Dialogue: German
Director: Ulli Lommel Composer: Peer Raben With: Kurt Raab, Jeff Roden, Margit Carstensen, Ingrid Caven

Using his status as a police informant to procure his victims, baby-faced, shaven-headed Fritz Haarmann dismembers their bodies after death and sells the flesh to restaurants, dumping the remainder out of sight.

“The comedy doesn’t blunt the horror of Haarmann’s murders, but it does enable Lommel to implicate the ‘tender wolves’ - the society that makes such crimes possible - without resorting to didacticism or moralizing.” - Time Out

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Credits

Director

Ulli Lommel

Composer

Peer Raben

With

Kurt Raab, Jeff Roden, Margit Carstensen, Ingrid Caven

Scenario

Kurt Raab

Director of Photography

Jürgen Jürges

Editor

Thea Eymèsz, Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Producer

Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Michael Fengler

Production studios

Tango Film

More information

Dialogue

German

Countries of production

West Germany

Year

1973

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