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The Man Who Murdered
The Man Who Murdered
Directed by	Curtis Bernhardt
Written by	Pierre Frondaie; Heinz Goldberg; Henry Koster; Harry Kahn; Carl Mayer;
Based on	L'homme qui assassina by Claude Farrère
Produced by	Curt Melnitz; Ralph Scotoni; Victor Skutezky;
Starring	Conrad Veidt; Trude von Molo; Heinrich George;
Cinematography	Curt Courant
Edited by	Laslo Benedek
Music by	Hans J. Salter
Production; company	Terra Film
Distributed by	Terra Film
Release date	23 January 1931;
Running time	93 minutes
Country	Germany
Language	German

The Man Who Murdered (German: Der Mann, der den Mord beging) is a 1931 German crime drama film directed by Curtis Bernhardt and starring Conrad Veidt, Trude von Molo and Heinrich George.^[1] It is adapted from the 1906 novel L'homme qui assassina by Claude Farrère. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Heinrich Richter and Hermann Warm. It was shot at the Babelsberg Studios in Potsdam.^[2] Location filming took place in Istanbul and around the Bosphorus. It premiered at the Gloria-Palast in Berlin. The following year a separate English version, Stamboul, was made.

Synopsis

In pre-First World War Constantinople, French colonel the Marquis de Sévigné is brought in to train the Turkish Army. He encounters the domineering Lord Falkland and his sensitive wife. Although the marriage is loveless, she can't consider leaving her husband as it would mean also losing her young son George. Sévigné falls in love with her, and shoots Lord Falkland. However, suspicion of the murder then falls on an innocent man.

Cast

Conrad Veidt as Marquis de Sévigné
Trude von Molo as Lady Falkland
Heinrich George as Lord Falkland
Friedl Haerlin as Lady Edith
Frida Richard as Lady Foult
Friedrich Kayßler as Mehmed Pascha
Gregori Chmara as Prince Cernuwicz
Erich Ponto as Boucher - franz. Gesandter
Hans-Joachim Möbis as Terrail
Yvette Rodin as Mme. Terrail
Rolf Drucker as George Falkland - Sohn
Bruno Ziener as Prospère - Diener bei Sévigné

References

^ Grange p. 357
^ Soister p.223

Bibliography

Grange, William (2008). Cultural Chronicle of the Weimar Republic. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-5967-8.
Soister, John T. Conrad Veidt on Screen: A Comprehensive Illustrated Filmography. McFarland, 2002.
Spicer, Andrew; Hanson, Helen (2013). A Companion to Film Noir. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-1-118-52371-1.