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When Darkness Falls
When Darkness Falls
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When Darkness Falls

1960
Directed byArne Mattsson
1h 53m

Young Elisabeth comes to Västlinge to meet her old relative, the vicar and and his young daughter. She is going to spend the Christmas there in peace and quiet but on Christmas Eve, the grocer is brutally murdered with an axe. Police inspector Christer Wijk comes to the small village to find the murderer. He soon discovers the puzzle of evidence that makes almost everybody a suspect.

CAST
Karl-Arne HolmstenChrister WijkNils AstherVicar Tord Ekstedt
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DETAILS
GENRES
Crime
STATUSReleased
RATING
5.4

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