Die Zärtlichkeit der Wölfe

19731973
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1h 22m

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Kurt Raab in Die Zärtlichkeit der Wölfe (1973)

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Using his status as a police informant to procure his victims, baby-faced, shaven-headed Fritz Haarmann dismembers their bodies after death and sells the flesh to restaurants, dumping the re... Read allUsing his status as a police informant to procure his victims, baby-faced, shaven-headed Fritz Haarmann dismembers their bodies after death and sells the flesh to restaurants, dumping the remainder out of sight.Using his status as a police informant to procure his victims, baby-faced, shaven-headed Fritz Haarmann dismembers their bodies after death and sells the flesh to restaurants, dumping the remainder out of sight.

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Friedrich Karl Praetorius in Die Zärtlichkeit der Wölfe (1973)

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Listed as one of the 1,000 movies that will change your life in the book by TimeOut.

Goofs
Waiting on the stations platform a train with 1970ies Bundesbahn-wagon (type "Silberlinge") leaves the station. The film is supposed to act in the 1920ies.

Quotes
Insp. Fritz Haarmann: Take my little life. I am not afraid of death through the axe of the hangman. It is my salvation. I am happy to give my death and my blood for atonement into God's arms and justice. It could've been 30, but also 40. I don't know. There are victims that you don't know about. But they are not the ones you're thinking of. They were the most beautiful ones I had.

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"Mein Tod und Blut gebe ich gern zur Sühne in Gottes Arme und Gerechtigkeit" Fritz Haarmann (I will gladly give my death and blood as a reparation into the arms of god and justice)

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Edited into Ulli Lommel's Zodiac Killer (2005)

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8/10

Ulli Lommel's disturbing shocker!

Fritz Haarman-the infamous "Butcher of Hanover" was one of the worst serial killers in the recent history.During five years(1919-1924)with the help of his homosexual partner Hans Grans he butchered nearly fifty youths.Their method was always the same:they enticed a youth from railway station back to Haarman's room,Haarman killed him(according to his account by biting his throat)and the boy's body was dismembered and sold as meat.His clothes were sold,and the useless(i.e. uneatable)body parts were thrown into the river Leine.Haarman was sentenced to death,Grans to twelve years in jail.Ulli Lommel's "The Tenderness of Wolves" is a realistic portrayal of this notorious killer.It's brilliantly acted,psychologically disturbing and almost completely non-violent.Definitely a must-see!

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