The Golden Glove (2019)

A serial killer strikes fear in the hearts of residents of Hamburg during the early 1970s.

Director:

Fatih Akin

Writers:

Fatih Akin (screenplay), Heinz Strunk (novel)

Stars:

Jonas Dassler, Tristan Göbel, Margarete Tiesel

3 wins & 7 nominations.

Cast

Credited cast:
Jonas Dassler	...	Fritz Honka
Tristan Göbel	...	Willi
Margarete Tiesel	...	Gerda Voss
Adam Bousdoukos	...	Lefteris
Katja Studt	...	Helga Denningsen
Marc Hosemann	...	Siggi Honka
Martina Eitner-Acheampong	...	Frida
Victoria Trauttmansdorff	...	Gisela
Hark Bohm	...	Dornkaat-Max
Greta Sophie Schmidt	...	Petra Schulz
Jessica Kosmalla	...	Ruth
Heinz Strunk	...	Kriegsveteran
Laurens Walter	...	Polizist
Tom Hoßbach	...	Fritz Honka (jung)
Uwe Rohde	...	Herbert Nürnberg

Storyline

A serial killer strikes fear in the hearts of residents of Hamburg during the early 1970s.

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Plot Keywords:

color in title | pub | male frontal nudity | male full frontal nudity | female full frontal nudity | 

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Genres:

Crime | Drama | Horror | Thriller

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Certificate:

Not Rated

Did You Know?

Trivia

Based upon the novel of the same title, written by the author Heinz Strunk and published in 2016.

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Quotes

Siggi Honka: There are preciseIy three reasons why people drink: First, to forget about the bad things. Second, to celebrate the good things. And third, when nothing's going on, to make things happen.

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Soundtracks

Wenn du kein Mädel weisst
Written by Leadbelly (as Huddie Ledbetter), John A. Lomax (as John A. Sr. Lomax) and Walter Stein
Performed by Lale Andersen

User Reviews

Brutal

Not for the fainthearted. Not even for the worldly cynical. This is not enjoyable in the conventional entertainment sense: it is brutal, repulsive, despairing, terrible and powerful. It depicts the marginal lower depths of human filth, driven by its single appetite and relentless, amoral need to satisfy it.

Technically the film is a marvel, the production design and the atmosphere created means the scenes have the stench of depravity and human waste, especially in Honka's attic. Similarly, the photography and editing are compelling, and that all says that the director has done the job.

The actors are excellent, the make-up artists too, who made them into degenerate hopeless alcoholics, but the lead, Dassler as Honka, has to be noted because he has incarnated this role to an awful degree. Without that performance the film might falter, be more like a movie, not as document of murder.

If Fritz Lang could see this film, he'd be proud, because it has the same ruthless eye that he had in his German films. It takes the audience into the middle of a horror and never lets go.

Details

Official Sites:

Official Facebook Official site

Country:

Germany France

Language:

German Greek Italian

Release Date:

21 February 2019 (Germany)

Also Known As:

The Golden Glove

Filming Locations:

Hamburg, Germany

Box Office

Opening Weekend USA:

$2,300, 29 September 2019

Gross USA:

$6,160

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$604,479

Company Credits

Production Co:

Bombero International, Warner Bros. Film Productions Germany, Pathé

Technical Specs

Runtime:

115 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Atmos

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1