Night of the Twelve
Directed by	Hans Schweikart
Written by	Fred Andreas Paul May Felicitas von Reznicek (novel)
Produced by	Gerhard Staab
Starring	Rudolf Fernau Ferdinand Marian Mady Rahl
Cinematography	Franz Koch
Edited by	Ludolf Grisebach Werner Jacobs
Music by	Norbert Schultze
Production company	Bavaria Film
Distributed by	Emka-Filmverleih
Release date	7 January 1949 (1949-01-07)
Running time	92 minutes
Country	Germany
Language	German

Night of the Twelve (German: Die Nacht der Zwölf) is a 1949 German crime film directed by Hans Schweikart and starring Rudolf Fernau, Ferdinand Marian and Mady Rahl.^[1]

It was made at the Bavaria Studios in Munich in 1945. It wasn't released before the end of the Second World War, and its eventual premiere took place in 1949. It was one of several crossover films from the Nazi era to debut during the Allied Occupation of Germany.

• Rudolf Fernau as Rohrbach, Kriminalrat
• Ernst Karchow as Jost, Kriminalkommissar
• Kurt Müller-Graf as Heinze, Kriminalinspektor
• Ferdinand Marian as Leopold Lanski, Agent
• Elsa Wagner as Frau Siebel, Lanskis Wirtin
• Oskar Sima as Schliemann, Villenbesitzer
• Dagny Servaes as Frau von Droste
• Mady Rahl as Lily Kruse
• Alice Treff as Erika Petzold
• Annelies Reinhold as Frau Steffens
• Ellen Hille as Elfriede
• Adolf Gondrell
• Fritz Odemar
• Gerhard Bienert
• Nicolas Koline
• Alois Krüger
• Hildegard Flöricke
• Alexander Fischer-Marich
• Reinhold Pasch
• Arthur Wiesner
• Rudolf Stadler

• Überläufer

• Davidson, John & Hake, Sabine. Framing the Fifties: Cinema in a Divided Germany. Berghahn Books, 2007.

• Night of the Twelve at IMDb

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