Randolph Tiefenthaler and his wife Rebecca have bought a beautiful 1920s house and move in with their children. The only condition for the sale was that the former owner's brother would be allowed to continue living in the basement.
Acting
Heino Ferch's unraveling everyman is quietly devastating.
Direction
Berger turns a bourgeois living room into a pressure cooker.
Director
Thomas Berger
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Adapted from Ferdinand von Schirach's novel, this taps into German 'Sesselkrimi' tradition—cozy crime that unsettles rather than thrills.
The 1920s Berlin setting isn't nostalgic; it's a ghost story about property and who gets to belong in a city of rising rents.
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