One good deed. Zero good outcomes. Welcome to the German justice system.
For almost 30 years, bookseller Jordan has lived and worked in a neighborhood in Berlin that has become a social hotbed. As Jordan witnesses a teenager brutally beating up an older man, he intervenes and files a complaint - with unimaginable consequences ... Director Dror Zahavi ("Everything for my father", "My life - Marcel Reich-Ranicki") succeeded after a screenplay by Jürgen Werner ("Tatort - With a steady hand", "Schimanski - layer in the pit", also with Götz George) an atmospherically tightly staged and outstandingly played portrait of a so-called problem district. Here nothing is glossed over, but instead the reality shown and the powerlessness of our judicial system mercilessly layed bare. A highlight of 2010!
Acting
Götz George's final performance — weary, stubborn, unforgettable.
Direction
Zahavi refuses to let you look away from institutional rot.
Writing
Script that treats bureaucracy as its own villain.
Director
Dror Zahavi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Götz George, Germany's most beloved TV detective (Schimanski), died in 2016; this was among his final film roles, deliberately subverting his tough-guy image.
The film sparked national debate about 'Parallelgesellschaften' (parallel societies) in German cities and the real 2008 case of a Munich subway beating where bystanders did nothing.
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