The dregs of society wind up in Hamburg’s red light district and a sleazy bar known as The Golden Glove (Der Goldene Handschuh). This is the hunting ground of serial killer Fritz Honka, an unskilled laborer and bottom feeder whose murders are detailed, without too many scruples or explanations, in Fatih Akin’s determinedly seamy reconstruction. Watching old alcoholic prostitutes being lured to their deaths has the morbid fascination of all true-crime tales, but the unremitting bleakness of Akin’s vision, atmospherically visualized by production designer Tamo Kunz and a host of grungy actors, is likely to be too much ...
The dregs of society wind up in Hamburg’s red light district and a sleazy bar known as The Golden Glove (Der Goldene Handschuh). This is the hunting ground of serial killer Fritz Honka, an unskilled laborer and bottom feeder whose murders are detailed, without too many scruples or explanations, in Fatih Akin’s determinedly seamy reconstruction. Watching old alcoholic prostitutes being lured to their deaths has the morbid fascination of all true-crime tales, but the unremitting bleakness of Akin’s vision, atmospherically visualized by production designer Tamo Kunz and a host of grungy actors, is likely to be too much ...
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