Diary of a Serial Killer
1969, German. Directed by Helmut Käutner.
Böhm, a young marriage swindler, meets up with an old school friend who works as a writer. Lehmann writes sensational factual reports about spies and murderers. When Mr. Böhm learns that he can make money by claiming to be a murderer, he pretends to be a woman-killer. His old school friend Lehmann then takes him to his agent Mr. Marojan. While the "factual report" is in full swing, the police discover the truth, namely that Böhm is not a murderer at all. So as not to disappoint the magazines, Böhm, Lehmann and agent Marojan come up with a perfidious plan: Böhm is actually to murder women. A victim is soon found, but "woman killer" Böhm makes a fatal mistake...
- Runtime
- 1h 40m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- German
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Cast & crew
- Helmut KäutnerDirector
- Siegfried LowitzJohn Marojan
- Helmut QualtingerRudi Böhm
- Günter PfitzmannWerner Lehmann
- Ingrid van BergenIleana Marojan
- Manfred HeidmannDr. Erik Gilbert
- Elisabeth WiedemannUrsula
- Udo VioffGünter Schmidt
- Christiane SchröderDr. Jolanda Schmidt
- Paul KlingerKriminalrat Rose
- Henning SchlüterBeamter vom Verfassungsschutz
- Hans-Werner BussingerKriminalassistent Fischer
- Barbara MorawieczMarja
Details
- Released
- 18 June 1969
- Original title
- Tagebuch eines Frauenmörders
- Country
- Germany
- Written by
- István Békeffy
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Diary of a Serial Killer runs 100 minutes (1h 40m).
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Diary of a Serial Killer isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 18 June 1969. (Checked 12 November 2026.)
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Who directed Diary of a Serial Killer?
Diary of a Serial Killer (1969) was directed by Helmut Käutner and stars Siegfried Lowitz, Helmut Qualtinger, Günter Pfitzmann.