Death is My Trade

Based On the book by Robert Merle

Death is My Trade (German: Aus einem deutschen Leben) is a 1977 German film, which is based on the script of director Theodor Kotulla, starring Götz George in the leading role. The script is based on the French novel La mort est mon métier by Robert Merle, which was published in 1952 (English edition: Death Is My Trade). Like the novel, the film is partly based on interrogation records of the trial against Rudolf Höß, SS-officer and commander of the Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz, as well as on his autobiographical notes. He made these notes first during his time as a British POW, then, after he was extradited, as a Polish prisoner in 1946/47, before he was executed as a convicted war criminal.

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Release date:

November 18, 1977

Director:

Theodor Kotulla

Cast:

Götz George, Hans Korte, Kai Taschner, Elisabeth Schwarz, Kurt Hübner

Genre:

Drama, Biographical

Country:

Germany

Language:

German

Year page:

1977 in adaptations