A journalist snorts the truth, then pays in blood. 80s German revenge thriller hits different.
The young Munich sensational reporter Raoul Miller has attacked a lot of people in his cocaine report, who now take terrible revenge: they kill his girlfriend Raphaela and his parents. The drug mafia also ensures that Raoul loses his good reputation and becomes an outsider. But Raoul does not give up...
Direction
Schmidt's MTV-adjacent energy before it was cool
Editing
Jagged cuts that mirror cocaine paranoia
Acting
Ulrich Tukur's slimy charisma as the antagonist
Director
Eckhart Schmidt
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of Germany's '80s 'Neue Wilden' wave—filmmakers rejecting austere New German Cinema for pulp, sex, and stylized violence. Schmidt was its trash-poet laureate.
Sibylle Rauch was a Playboy centerfold making her screen debut; Schmidt frequently cast models and non-actors for his hyper-stylized reality.
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