The Laughing Man

The Laughing Man
1966
★★★☆☆ 6.8/10
⏱️ 66 min
📅 Released
🌐 DE
Documentary
Posing as West German journalists, East German documentary filmmakers Heynowski and Scheumann pay a visit to the notorious Nazi-turned-mercenary Siegfried “Kongo” Müller, pump him with booze, and get him to talk about his life and war campaigns in Africa.

Cast

Siegfried Müller
Siegfried Müller
Self
Hermann Herlinghaus
Hermann Herlinghaus
Narrator (voice)

Crew

Director
Gerhard Scheumann, Walter Heynowski
Writer
Walter Heynowski, Gerhard Scheumann
Producer
Jochen Stoff

Production

Fernsehen der DDR, DEFA-Studio für Dokumentarfilme

Keywords

world war iibiographyconfession of crime