St. Pauli Between Night and Morning

St. Pauli Between Night and Morning (German: St. Pauli zwischen Nacht und Morgen) is a 1967 West German crime film directed by José Bénazéraf and starring Eva Christian, Helmut Förnbacher and Dunja Rajter.^{[1] [2]} Shot and set in the St. Pauli red light district of Hamburg, it was one of a number of crime films produced in the era that used the city as a backdrop.^[3]

Helmut Schmidt a Zurich-based Interpol officer is seconded to Hamburg to infiltrate a gang of drug smugglers. Working out that it is based out of a nightclub, he recruits the French dancer Arlette to assist him in working undercover. But the two start a relationship and Schmidt begins to think of double-crossing his own police colleagues and fleeing abroad with Arlette and the cash from a planned robbery.

• Eva Christian as Tänzerin Arlette
• Helmut Förnbacher as Helmut Schmidt, Leiter der Interpol Zürich
• Dunja Rajter as Stripperin Linda
• Rolf Eden as Nachtclubbesitzer Bernie
• Hans Waldherr as Geldtransporträuber
• Tom Riedel as Playboy Galinski
• Bob Iller as Freund von Bernie
• Jochen Sehrndt as Geldtransporträuber
• Edgar Maschmann as Polizeipräsident

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• St. Pauli Between Night and Morning at IMDb