The Golden Glove (2019)
3.5 of 5 from 45 ratings
1h 45min
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- Synopsis:
Hamburg's St. Pauli district in the 1970's is a neighbourhood of night-time entertainment and its nocturnal figures: habitual drinkers and prostitutes, gambling addicts and other lonely souls. Fritz Honka (Jonas Dassler), a short man with thick horn-rimmed glasses and an unfortunate face, is one of them. An unskilled labourer, he picks up lonely older women, down-at-heel drinkers, in a local boozer called 'Zum Goldenen Handschuh' (The Golden Glove). Nobody realises that he batters and strangles these women in his attic apartment, then dismembers them and disposes of their remains behind the attic wall. Distributing scented air-fresheners throughout the building to disguise the stench of decay, he blames the neighbouring Greek family for the penetrating smells. Based on the true case of serial killer Fritz Honka and on Heinz Strunk's 2016 crime novel, Fatih Akin has created a portrait of a socially depraved, violent criminal, driven by misogyny, sexual greed and sentimentality. - Actors:
- Jonas Dassler, Margarete Tiesel, Katja Studt, Marc Hosemann, Adam Bousdoukos, Martina Eitner-Acheampong, Greta Sophie Schmidt, Hark Bohm, Heinz Strunk, Tristan Göbel, Laurens Walter, Victoria Trauttmansdorff, Tom Hoßbach, Jessica Kosmalla, Barbara Krabbe, Philipp Baltus, Uwe Rohde, Jens Weisser, Peter Badstübner, Dirk Böhling
- Directors:
- Fatih Akin
- Producers:
- Fatih Akin, Herman Weigel
- Writers:
- Fatih Akin, Heinz Strunk
- Aka:
- Der goldene Handschuh
- Genres:
- Drama, Thrillers
- Countries:
- Germany
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