''Agatha, Stop That Murdering!'' (German: ''Agatha, laß das Morden sein!'') is a 1960 West German
comedy
Comedy is a genre of fiction that consists of discourses or works intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, film, stand-up comedy, television, radio, books, or any other entertainment medium. The term ori ...
crime film
Crime films, in the broadest sense, is a film genre inspired by and analogous to the crime fiction literary genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and its detection. Stylistically, the genre may overlap and combi ...
directed by
Dietrich Haugk
Dietrich Haugk (12 May 1925 – 28 June 2015) was a German film director and voice actor. He was born in Ellrich/Harz, Germany.
He made his stage debut at a theater in Bielefeld in 1946 and has been a noted theater director since 1949 and served as ...
and starring
Johanna von Koczian
Johanna von Koczian (, née von Kóczián-Miskolczy, born 30 October 1933) is a German actress. She grew up in Salzburg, Austria, where actor Gustaf Gründgens offered her a role at the Salzburg Festival. She later portrayed Anne Frank at the Sch ...
,
Klausjürgen Wussow
Klausjürgen Wussow (30 April 1929 – 19 June 2007) was a German stage, film and television actor.
Early life
Wussow was born in Cammin, Province of Pomerania, Weimar Germany (modern Kamień Pomorski, Poland). His father was a teacher and ca ...
and
Elisabeth Flickenschildt
Elisabeth Ida Marie Flickenschildt (16 March 1905 – 26 October 1977) was a German actress, producer and author. She appeared in dozens of German language films and television productions between 1935–1976.
Flickenschildt was born in Hamburg ...
.
It is a parody both of the ongoing
film series of Edgar Wallace adaptations but also the traditions of the mystery novels of
Agatha Christie
Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, (; 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English writer known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictiona ...
.
The film's sets were designed by the