With his novel The Golden Glove, author Heinz Strunk published a bestseller in 2016, which revolves around the true story of the serial killer Fritz Honka.
In 2019, Gegen die Wand and Soul Kitchen director Fatih Akin delivered a film adaptation of the book that has it all. The disturbing mix of dirty biopic and extremely brutal serial killer horror that new to the Amazon Prime subscription *streams, tests the load limit of his audience.
Serial killer horror on Amazon Prime: That’s what The Golden Glove is about
The plot, based on true events, revolves around Fritz Honka, who regularly hangs out in the eponymous neighborhood bar in St. Pauli in Hamburg in the 1970s. While he lives among personalities who have similarly failed in life, Honka’s not exactly attractive appearance hides even more ghastly abysses. He repeatedly takes single, older women into his apartment to talk to them to sexually abuse or brutally murder.
That’s what makes the disturbing shocker The Golden Glove so good
Fatih Akin has transformed the dirty linguistic poetry from Heinz Strunk’s novel into a violent mixture of a bleak moral painting and an uncompromising genre film. There has rarely been a more disgusting serial killer film from Germany. This is not only due to the shocking murder scenes, but also to the filthy furnishings. You can look through them when you look at them Decay from Honka’s death nest of an apartment literally smell yourself.
In addition to the furious acting performance of Jonas Dassler in the title role, who cannot be recognized behind the mask, The Golden Glove also impresses with its empathetic devotion to the victims of the real murderer. They are captured, observed and thus appreciated through extensive close-ups.
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