The Shadows Grow Longer

The Shadows Grow Longer — Plot

Christa Andres runs a home for troubled girls. With great dedication, she tries to help girls who have gone astray return to a normal life. She takes special care of Erika, who works as a prostitute and one day runs away from the home. Christa sets out to search for the girl in the red-light district. In doing so, she is haunted by the shadows of her own past. The educator herself used to work as a prostitute. When she meets her former pimp, he tries to exploit his knowledge in a perfidious way and blackmail Christa...

• Release date
• August 11, 1961
• Runtime
• 91 min
• Genres
• Drama
• Director
• Ladislao Vajda

The Shadows Grow Longer — Cast

Barbara Rütting Christa Andres Loni von Friedl Erika Schöner Hansjörg Felmy Max Luise Ullrich Frau Diethelm

F

Fred Tanner Dr. Borner

C

Carola Rasch Bessie

M

Margot Medicus Barbara Helga Sommerfeld Helene