This 2006 film doesn't slot tidily into any genre. Murder mystery? Horror film? Art house? It's somewhere in between. It's a unique film that could never have been made in America, not even as an independent film. Though filmed in English, the director is Hungarian and the film crew is mostly German.
Marian, who lives in New York, travels to Berlin when she hears that her brother Michael has killed himself. She has doubts that his death was really suicide, but the police have found no evidence of foul play. While in Berlin she meets his friends, including Eric, a promiscuous comic book artist, famous for drawing a comic about a serial killer called Dagger. Before she leaves Berlin she's caught up in a mystery: a series of famous actresses and singers are being murdered in ways that mimic killings in Eric's comics. Are these killings somehow connected with her brother's death?
The cinematography is as important to the film as the story and the actors themselves. The picture is dark and grainy, making Berlin look like a deep pit, a place where evil lurks around every corner. I recommend the film to anyone who is interested in seeing something different.
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