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| director = Rolf Hansen

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| cinematography = Franz Weihmayr

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| music = Mark Lothar

| studio = Fono Film

| distributor = Deutsche Film Hansa

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| runtime = 106 minutes

| country = West Germany

| language = German

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'Devil in Silk' is a 1956 West German drama film directed by Rolf Hansen and starring Lilli Palmer, Curd Jrgens, and Winnie Markus. After leaving his overbearing wife for another woman, a composer is suspected of her murder when she is found dead.

It was shot at the Spandau Studios in Berlin. Location shooting took place at Kampen on the island of Sylt in Schleswig-Holstein. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Robert Herlth and and .

Plot



On a train journey, the penniless composer Thomas meets the rich publisher Melanie. The two get married and Melanie gets Thomas a lucrative job in her publishing house. However, the fits of jealousy and his wife's compulsion to control bother Thomas. When he begins an affair with his secretary and demands a divorce from Melanie, she commits suicide and makes it appear as if he killed her.

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