Bruno has lost his medical license and is now practicing illegally, no questions asked. His interest is aroused when a lawyer offers to have him treat a leukemia-stricken mafioso. This not only gets him caught between rival gangs, but also puts his old life further and further out of reach.
Acting
Moschitto's sweaty desperation carries every scene.
Direction
Co-directors blur legal and criminal medicine with slick dread.
Production
Hamburg's underbelly shot like a fever dream.
Director
Denis Moschitto
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Moschitto co-directed his own nervous breakdown; he learned actual emergency procedures for authenticity.
Part of a wave of German 'system thrillers' examining institutional rot through personal collapse.
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