Visueller Stil in den Edgar-Wallace-Filmen der Rialto/Constantin

The Edgar Wallace films of Rialto Film and Constantin Filmverleih became the most successful and long-lived German crime film series in the 60s. This was due above all to its striking visual design, which has a strong recognition value but has so far largely remained unnoticed by research. Reason enough to embark on a search for a specific visual style consisting of mise-en-scène, camera work and montage that makes the fascination of the Edgar Wallace series, which continues to this day, comprehensible and which no other director has shaped as much as Alfred Vohrer, who Quentin Tarantino called German Hitchcock.