ZEIT VERBRECHEN (DEZEMBER / DER PANTHER)

In the organizer's words:

TV series - D 2024 - 2x60' (4x60') - OF

Director: Faraz Shariat, Jan Bonny, Helene Hegemann, Mariko Minoguchi

DECEMBER: The chronicle of a collective failure or a chain of unfortunate circumstances? Tim celebrates - a little too exuberantly. He finds himself disoriented outside the club. An ambulance picks him up, but leaves him to his own devices again. The police don't want to take Tim home. He rings the doorbell of a house, but its residents also just want to get rid of him. The next day, Tintin is dead. Mariko Minoguchi's sober and meticulous account of the night leaves you stunned.

THE PANTHER: Johnny is "The Panther", in better moments a lovable asshole, in worse moments a psychotically brutal criminal. And: Johnny is an informer for the police. How long can his double-cross, which is supposed to bring him enough money to finally get out of debt, go on? Lars Eidinger has rarely been better cast than in this breathless ode to the beautiful ugliness of Leverkusen. Jan Bonny creates a character that is rare in German film in its radical restlessness and ambivalence. Less true crime than an existentialist portrait.

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