When a notorious German serial killer is captured after committing some of the most heinous acts against humanity ever imaginable, a farmer and police officer from a sleepy rural community on the outskirts of Berlin is drawn into the case as he searches for the answers to a murder that has shaken his tight-knit community.
Acting
André Hennicke's predator charisma that seduces and repulses simultaneously.
Direction
Alvart's suffocating close-ups that trap you in the interrogation room.
Writing
Dialogue that weaponizes religious language into psychological warfare.
Director
Christian Alvart
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released in 2005, the film deliberately echoes Germany's wrestling with collective guilt and individual responsibility in the post-war era.
Hennicke based Gabriel Engel's physicality on studying actual predator interviews, particularly the calculated stillness before striking.
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