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The Devil's General

“They bought his soul and put him in command of Hell!”

1955 · 1 h 57 min
Directed by Helmut Käutner
DramaWar

Cast

Cast not recorded here

Plot

The adaptation of the eponymous play by Carl Zuckmayer: a German air force general, a gifted pilot, is torn by the Nazi regime.

Sinekatalog’s take

Helmut Käutner's drama, with Curd Jürgens, is tense and morally complex, one of the notable postwar German films.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.

Ratings

IMDb: 7.2 / 10 (1,461 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.