At the end of 2023, Amazon served us a series adaptation of Sebastian Fitzek’s successful novel The Therapy and thus landed a real streaming hit. No wonder that Prime Video has directly secured the rights to the next Fitzek book. A new film adaptation is now available to stream, which takes on one of the author’s most successful works: The way home.
The Way Home on Amazon Prime Video: Sebastian Fitzek’s thriller tells of a deadly ultimatum
Jules (Sabin Tambrea) works at the so-called escort telephone – a service that is intended to enable women in particular to get home safely by being accompanied by telephone. His shift on Saturday evening begins as usual. However, that suddenly changes when the young mother Klara (Luise Heyer) calls.
Because Klara is faced with an incredible and impossible ultimatum. The notorious woman murderer of the name Calendar killer is targeting her and gives her a choice: either she should kill her husband (Friedrich Mücke) or the calendar killer will drag her to her death himself. Can Jules get her out of this situation?
Watch the trailer for The Way Home here:
The Way Home – Trailer (German) HD
The film, directed by Adolfo Kolmerer, is based on the novel of the same name by Sebastian Fitzek *, which is for Top position in the German book charts for 11 weeks and stayed in the local bestseller lists for 81 weeks. The Way Home was only published in autumn 2020 and still became the most successful novel of the year.
In addition to Luise Heyer (The boy needs some fresh air), Sabin Tambrea (Babylon Berlin) and Friedrich Mücke (Wunderschön), The Way Home includes Rainer Bock (Better Call Saul), Andreas Döhler (Nothing New in the West), Shadi Eck, among others (Asbestos) and Isabel Thierauch (Between Summer and Autumn).
The Way Home has been streaming on Amazon Prime Video since January 16, 2025. All six episodes of the Sebastian Fitzek adaptation The Therapy * are also available there. And if that’s not enough for you, you can find all of Sebastian Fitzek’s previous film adaptations in this list.
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