Ironically, the art detective Johann Friedrich von Allmen is staying in a high-end Zurich hotel when a million-dollar dahlia painting disappears from the private suite of the owner. What would be more obvious to the eccentric Dahlia Gutbauer than to entrust "Allmen International Inquiries" with the discreet replacement?
Acting
Heino Ferch's perfectly calibrated aristocratic desperation.
Production
Zurich luxury porn that makes broke look impossibly chic.
Writing
Dry Swiss humor that sneaks up and actually lands.
Director
Thomas Berger
Heino Ferch
Johann Friedrich von Allmen
Samuel Finzi
Carlos
Andrea Osvárt
Jojo
Katharina Schüttler
Dalia Scheidegger
Florian Stetter
Claude Tenz
Isabella Parkinson
Maria Moreno
Mehdi Nebbou
Nebler
Erni Mangold
Dahlia Gutbauer
Udo Samel
Severin Erlbaum
Christina Hecke
Charyl Talfeld
Oscar Ortega Sánchez
Don Gregorio
Holger Handtke
Hans Buhren
Jörg Pintsch
Receptionist
Robert Meller
Gruwiller
Shadi Hedayati
The Arab's wife
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on the popular German-language Allmen novels by Martin Suter, this adapts the first book in a long-running series beloved for its gentle mockery of Swiss propriety.
Heino Ferch reportedly insisted on doing his own wine-pouring scenes to capture Allmen's specific blend of elegance and desperation. The tremor in hand is acting, the exhaustion is method.
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