--- title: 'Via Mala (1961)' type: 'film' director: 'Paul May' released: '1961-01-01' runtime_minutes: 93 genres: - 'Drama' countries: - 'Germany' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/via-mala-1961' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055596/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Via Mala (1961) 1961 · 93 min · Drama · Germany ## Synopsis Via Mala is a 1961 West German drama film directed by Paul May and starring Gert Fröbe, Joachim Hansen and Christine Kaufmann. It is an adaptation of the 1934 novel Via Mala by John Knittel, which had previously been made into a film in 1945. After a tyrannical father in a small Swiss village is killed, almost everyone he knows comes under suspicion of having murdered him. ## Credits - **Director:** [Paul May](https://cinepixo.com/people/paul-may) - **Screenplay:** [Kurt Heuser](https://cinepixo.com/people/kurt-heuser) - **Original Music Composer:** [Rolf Alexander Wilhelm](https://cinepixo.com/people/rolf-alexander-wilhelm) - **Producer:** [Artur Brauner](https://cinepixo.com/people/artur-brauner) - **Director of Photography:** [Richard Angst](https://cinepixo.com/people/richard-angst) - **Editor:** [Walter Wischniewsky](https://cinepixo.com/people/walter-wischniewsky) ## Cast - [Paul Henckels](https://cinepixo.com/people/paul-henckels) - [Anita Höfer](https://cinepixo.com/people/anita-hofer) - [Christian Wolff](https://cinepixo.com/people/christian-wolff) - [Alexa von Porembsky](https://cinepixo.com/people/alexa-von-porembsky) - [Claus Wilcke](https://cinepixo.com/people/claus-wilcke) - [Christine Kaufmann](https://cinepixo.com/people/christine-kaufmann) - [Anne-Marie Blanc](https://cinepixo.com/people/anne-marie-blanc) - [Edith Schultze-Westrum](https://cinepixo.com/people/edith-schultze-westrum) - [Joseph Offenbach](https://cinepixo.com/people/joseph-offenbach) - [Heinrich Gretler](https://cinepixo.com/people/heinrich-gretler) - [Rudolf Forster](https://cinepixo.com/people/rudolf-forster) - [Joachim Hansen](https://cinepixo.com/people/joachim-hansen) - [Gert Fröbe](https://cinepixo.com/people/gert-frobe) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/via-mala-1961 Film facts: Wikidata (Q1639974); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.