Diary of a Serial Killer (1969)

Böhm, a young marriage swindler, meets up with an old school friend who works as a writer. Lehmann writes sensational factual reports about spies and murderers. When Mr. Böhm learns that he can make money by claiming to be a murderer, he pretends to be a woman-killer. His old school friend Lehmann then takes him to his agent Mr. Marojan. While the "factual report" is in full swing, the police discover the truth, namely that Böhm is not a murderer at all. So as not to disappoint the magazines, Böhm, Lehmann and agent Marojan come up with a perfidious plan: Böhm is actually to murder women. A victim is soon found, but "woman killer" Böhm makes a fatal mistake...
- Released
- 1969-06-18
- Genres
- Crime
- Runtime
- 100 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Helmut Käutner
- TMDB rating
- 7.0/10 from 1 votes
Cast
- Siegfried Lowitz as John Marojan
- Helmut Qualtinger as Rudi Böhm
- Günter Pfitzmann as Werner Lehmann
- Ingrid van Bergen as Ileana Marojan
- Manfred Heidmann as Dr. Erik Gilbert
- Elisabeth Wiedemann as Ursula
- Udo Vioff as Günter Schmidt
- Christiane Schröder as Dr. Jolanda Schmidt
- Paul Klinger as Kriminalrat Rose
- Henning Schlüter as Beamter vom Verfassungsschutz
- Hans-Werner Bussinger as Kriminalassistent Fischer
- Barbara Morawiecz as Marja
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