When Darkness Falls

Name: When Darkness Falls
Director: Arne Mattsson
Genre: Crime
Released: 1960-12-26
Duration: 1 h 53 min
Rating: 5.636
Cast: Karl-Arne Holmsten, Nils Asther, Birgitta Pettersson, George Fant, Elsa Prawitz

“A film with atmosphere and condensed mystery.”

1960

1h 53m

Crime

Director: Arne Mattsson

Overview

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.