

A coroner finds a capsule in the head of a heavily mutilated corpse, containing a phone number and single word: the name of his daughter.
Acting
Bleibtreu ages ten years in real-time panic—exhausting and magnetic.
Direction
Alvart weaponizes geography; that island is a character and it's evil.
Editing
Flashbacks that answer nothing, then everything, then worse questions.

Director
Christian Alvart
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on Sebastian Fitzek's novel 'Abgeschnitten,' which德国人 apparently couldn't put down despite needing therapy afterward.
Alvart pitched this as 'German Silence of the Lambs' and wasn't wrong—except Lecter never weaponized fatherhood this brutally.