''Satan Tempts with Love'' () is a 1960 French-West German

crime film Crime film is a film belonging to the crime fiction genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and fiction. Stylistically, the genre may overlap and combine with many other genres, such as Drama (film and television), dr ...

directed by

Rudolf Jugert Rudolf Jugert (1907–1979) was a German film director. Selected filmography * ''Film Without a Title'' (1948) * ''Hello, Fraulein!, Hallo, Fräulein!'' (1949) * ''A Day Will Come (1950 film), A Day Will Come'' (1950) * ''Nights on the Road'' (195 ...

and starring

Belinda Lee Belinda Lee (15 June 193512 March 1961) was an English actress. A profile for the British Film Institute's Screenonline website asserts: "of all the Rank Organisation's starlets, Belinda Lee stands out as the most notorious, yet paradoxically ...

, Joachim Hansen and

Ivan Desny Ivan Desny (born Ivan Nikolaevich Desnitsky; , 28 December 1922 – 13 April 2002) was a French actor of Russian Chinese origin. He had a lengthy career in French and German cinema, appearing in over 200 film and television roles over 50 year ...

.Bergfelder p.211 It was known in France as ''Les port des illusions'' and on American TV as ''The Devil's Choice''.

Plot

Carlos escapes from prison and meets Robert, who is carrying money that he has stolen from the bank where he was working. Carlos uses his girlfriend Evelyn, a singer, to steal the money so they can sail to Australia. However, Evelyn falls for Robert.

Cast

as Evelyn * Joachim Hansen as Robert *

as Carlos *

Heinz Engelmann Heinz Engelmann (14 January 1911 – 26 September 1996) was a German film actor. He was married to the actress Gertrud Meyen. During World War II, Engelmann served in the German Army (1935–1945), German Army with an Anti-aircraft warfare, anti-a ...

as Kapitän Philipp *

Peter Capell Peter Capell (3 September 1912 – 3 March 1986) was a German actor who was active on screen from 1945 until 1985. Apart from a lengthy film career, he appeared in many television series and mini-series. He appeared in many old time radio pr ...

as Geck * Osman Ragheb as Li Fang *

Dorothee Parker Dorothee Parker (born 1938) is a former German stage and film actress.Warren p.461 She was married to the film producer Wolf C. Hartwig, and appeared in a number of his films. After their separation she established a modelling agency in Hamburg ...

as Laura

Production

Lee had previously appeared in the German film '' She Walks By Night'' produced by Jugert. Filming started in Munich on 14 December 1959 under the title Katja. It was known during filming as Liebe um Mitternacht.

References

Bibliography

* Bergfelder, Tim. ''International Adventures: German Popular Cinema and European Co-Productions in the 1960s''. Berghahn Books, 2005.

External links

*
''Satan Tempts with Love''
at the

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