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When Darkness Falls

  • Crime

December 26, 1960 (SE)

1h 53m

A film with atmosphere and condensed mystery.

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 vil...

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