A young filmmaker becomes involved with a gangster in Berlin. Based on the Ulf Miehe novel Ich hab' noch einen Toten in Berlin.
Acting
Lou Castel's wounded-gangster charisma that predates Scorsese's antiheroes.
Cinematography
Berlin's 1974 grime rendered with accidental poetry.
Director
Michael Fengler
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Fengler co-wrote The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum the same year—this was his attempt to go solo and darker.
The novel's title translates to 'I still have a dead man in Berlin'—a pun on a German song about lost love that the film weaponizes into something far nastier.
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