The Girl in the Fog (2017)

Special agent Vogel is sent to an isolated town in a remote mountain valley to investigate the case of a sixteen years old's disappearance.

Director:

Donato Carrisi

Writers:

Donato Carrisi (novel), Donato Carrisi (screenplay)

Stars:

Toni Servillo, Alessio Boni, Lorenzo Richelmy

3 wins & 7 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Toni Servillo	...	Agente Vogel
Alessio Boni	...	Prof. Loris Martini
Lorenzo Richelmy	...	Agente Borghi
Galatea Ranzi	...	Stella Honer
Michela Cescon	...	Agente Mayer
Lucrezia Guidone	...	Clea
Daniela Piazza	...	Maria Kastner
Thierry Toscan	...	Bruno Kastner
Ekaterina Buscemi	...	Anna Lou Kastner
Antonio Gerardi	...	Avvocato, Levi
Jean Reno	...	Augusto Flores
Greta Scacchi	...	Beatrice Leman
Marina Occhionero	...	Monica
Jacopo Olmo Antinori	...	Mattia
Sabrina Martina	...	Priscilla

Storyline

On her way to church in the hazy alpine village of Avechot, the quiet 15-year-old, Anna Lou, daughter of a religious couple, vanishes into thin air, never to return home. To aid in the investigation of this puzzling case is summoned the fastidious Detective Vogel with the questionable methods; however, amidst a full-scale media storm and half-baked leads, no one is above suspicion, villagers and newcomers alike. But is Anna Lou's troubling disappearance a case of an adolescent tantrum only days before Christmas, or is there a wolf in sheep's clothing, hiding in the otherwise peaceful community?

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Plot Keywords:

alpine | italy | alps | alpine village | schoolgirl | 

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Genres:

Crime | Mystery | Thriller

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Certificate:

PG-13

Details

Official Sites:

Official Facebook

Country:

Italy Germany France

Language:

Italian

Release Date:

26 October 2017 (Italy)

Also Known As:

A Garota na Névoa

Filming Locations:

Alto Adige, Italy

Company Credits

Production Co:

Colorado Film Production, Medusa Film, Gavila

Technical Specs

Runtime:

128 min

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

It's the first movie directed by Carrisi.

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Quotes

Agente Vogel: Someone took her. Let's stop tiptoeing around it and call a spade a spade, or we'll waste time, and that time belongs to Anna Lou.

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Soundtracks

My Love is Real
Performed by Franck Sarkissian
Courtesy of Universal Music Publishing Ricordi S.r.l.

User Reviews

Great italian crime movie.

Following his incredible success, with three million copies of his novels sold worldwide, making him one of the most beloved thriller authors in Italy, Donato Carrisi has launched his directorial career with The Girl in the Fog, with 400 copies due to be released in Italian cinemas today with Medusa, after its premiere at Rome Film Fest. Carrisi has developed a fairly free adaptation of his latest best-selling novel of the same name, and it appears as though he got slightly carried away with the bewitching process of directing. The Girl in the Fog brings together a lot of noir imagery from the past 20 years, drawing from TV series, the Coen brothers, and much more recently The Snowman by Tomas Alfredson, adapted from Jo Nesbø's novel - another European master of crime fiction. The film - produced by Colorado and already sold by Studiocanal in Spain, Germany, France - includes all the necessary ingredients for a perfect postmodern Euro-thriller: a small community in the mountains, a lost girl, religious extremism, suspicious suspects, local useless police officers (with Fargo-esque fur hats), a self-righteous detective, an unscrupulous lawyer, a soulless journalist and a small nerdy boy with little propensity to socialise. Visually we see the addition of a few smartphone photos and some grainy videos, some 80s and 90s set design, hazy photography with vertical anamorphosis, and a piano, violin and flute soundtrack. I recommend.