Der Goldene Handschuh | The Golden Glove
Competition 2019
DEU/FRA 2019
by: Fatih Akin
Jonas Dassler
Der Goldene Handschuh | The Golden Glove
Competition 2019
DEU/FRA 2019
by: Fatih Akin
Jonas Dassler
Der Goldene Handschuh | The Golden Glove
Competition 2019
DEU/FRA 2019
by: Fatih Akin
Tilla Kratochwil, Herma Koehn, Barbara Krabbe, Victoria Trauttmansdorff
Der Goldene Handschuh | The Golden Glove
Competition 2019
DEU/FRA 2019
by: Fatih Akin
Margarethe Tiesel, Jonas Dassler
Der Goldene Handschuh | The Golden Glove
Competition 2019
DEU/FRA 2019
by: Fatih Akin
Greta Sophie Schmidt
Der Goldene Handschuh | The Golden Glove
Competition 2019
DEU/FRA 2019
by: Fatih Akin
Fatih Akin
Feb 7, 2019Fatih Akin, Jonas Dassler
The director with his protagonist from the literature adaptation.
Competition – Der Goldene Handschuh | The Golden Glove – Opening Gala
Feb 9, 2019Jonas Dassler
The actor with fans on the Red Carpet.
Competition – Der Goldene Handschuh | The Golden Glove
Feb 9, 2019Jonas Dassler, Fatih Akin
The director accompanied by his protagonist is being interviewed on the Red Carpet.
Competition – Der Goldene Handschuh | The Golden Glove
Feb 9, 2019The film team, Dieter Kosslick
The festival director amidst the film team.
Competition – Der Goldene Handschuh | The Golden Glove
Feb 9, 2019Margarethe Tiesel, Dieter Kosslick
The actress and the Festival Director jesting at the film premiere.
Competition – Der Goldene Handschuh | The Golden Glove
Feb 9, 2019Jessica Kosmalla, Greta Sophie Schmidt
The actresses at the premiere in the Berlinale Palast.
Competition – Der Goldene Handschuh | The Golden Glove
Feb 9, 2019The film team
From left to right: producer Herman Weigel; actor Jonas Dassler; actress Margarethe Tiesel; director, screenwriter and producer Fatih Akin; producer Nurhan Sekerci-Porst and author Heinz Strunk.
Competition – Der Goldene Handschuh | The Golden Glove
Feb 9, 2019Margarethe Tiesel, Fatih Akin, Jonas Dassler
Dircetor and film team with some shenanigans during the Photo Call.
Competition – Der Goldene Handschuh | The Golden Glove
Feb 9, 2019Fatih Akin
The all-round talent at the Photo Call.
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Feb 9, 2019Fatih Akin, Heinz Strunk
The director and the book author amicably during the Press Conference.
Competition – Der Goldene Handschuh | The Golden Glove
Feb 9, 2019Jonas Dassler
The film and theatre actor at the Press Conference.
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Feb 9, 2019Heinz Strunk
The author's book - inspired by true events - is the basis for the film adaptation.
Competition – Der Goldene Handschuh | The Golden Glove
Feb 9, 2019Jonas Dassler
The actor during the signing of his jovial Star Portrait.
Competition – Der Goldene Handschuh | The Golden Glove
Feb 9, 2019Jonas Dassler
The actor on the Red Carpet.
Competition – Der Goldene Handschuh | The Golden Glove
Feb 9, 2019Dieter Kosslick, Fatih Akin
The Festival Director and the director united at the premiere.
Competition – Der Goldene Handschuh | The Golden Glove
Feb 9, 2019Fatih Akin
The director expressive at the Press Conference.
Competition – Der Goldene Handschuh | The Golden Glove
Herman Weigel (Producer), Nurhan Sekerci-Porst (Producer), Margarethe Tiesel (Actress), Jonas Dassler (Actor), Fatih Akin (Director, Screenwriter, Producer), Heinz Strunk (Author)
Moderation: Anatol Weber
Press Conference at full lengthHamburg’s St. Pauli district in the 1970s is a neighbourhood of night-time entertainment and its nocturnal figures: habitual drinkers and prostitutes, gambling addicts and other lonely souls. Fritz Honka, 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. Akin’s film is a social study of the flip side of the then recent economic miracle; it is about individuals thrown off-kilter by the war and post-war turmoil in a dark Germany wholly lacking in confidence.
by
Fatih Akin
Germany / France 2019
German, Greek
110’ · Colour
World premiere
Jonas Dassler (Fritz Honka)Margarethe Tiesel (Gerda Voss)Katja Studt (Helga Denningsen)Martina Eitner-Acheampong (Frida)Hark Bohm (Dornkaat-Max)Jessica Kosmalla (Ruth)Barbara Krabbe (Anna)Tilla Kratochwil (Inge)Uwe Rohde (Herbert)Marc Hosemann (Siggi)
Born in Hamburg, Germany in 1973, he studied at the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg (HfBK). After making several short, documentary and feature films, he won the Golden Bear in 2004 for Gegen die Wand which made him one of the most celebrated directors in Europe. His next international hit, Auf der anderen Seite, won Best Screenplay at Cannes as well as the European and German Film awards. With his production company corazón international he also produces the work of other directors including the films Chiko, Takva and Min dît. His film Aus dem Nichts won, among other prizes, a Golden Globe.
Filmography (selection)1998 Kurz und schmerzlos 2000 Im Juli · Wir haben vergessen zurückzukehren 2002 Solino 2004 Gegen die Wand (Head On); Golden Bear 2006 Crossing the Bridge – The Sound of Istanbul 2007 Auf der anderen Seite 2008 New York, I Love You 2009 Soul Kitchen 2012 Müll im Garten Eden 2014 The Cut 2016 Tschick 2017 Aus dem Nichts 2019 Der goldene Handschuh (The Golden Glove)
Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2019
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