A washed-up soccer star becomes a vigilante dad. What could possibly go wrong? Everything.
After the end of his soccer career, Heimo Körner loses touch with normal life. Only when his stepdaughter Daniela slips into the drug scene he finds a new task: he wants to keep his neighborhood clean with a vigilante group.
Acting
Helmut Zierl's slow-motion spiral from pathetic to terrifying.
Direction
Schulze-Rohr lets you watch a man radicalize in real time.
Director
Peter Schulze-Rohr
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during Germany's reunification hangover, when 'concerned citizens' became political code. The film captures that specific 90s panic about borders real and imagined.
Helmut Zierl was primarily a soap opera heartthrob; this casting against type was deliberate sabotage of his nice-guy image. It worked too well—he got death threats.
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