Written by Siegfried Kammi and Christian Alvart (adapted from Alberto Rodríguez’s and Rafael Cobo’s script for 2014’s Marshland)
Directed by Christian Alvart
Starring Trystan Pütter, Felix Kramer and Nurit Hirschfeld
Running time: 2 hours and 9 minutes
Language: German (and some French)
Unrated-Contains nudity, language, sex, violence, sexual violence, smoking and drinking

by Benjamin Leonard, Best Boy

This is another one where, going in, I knew very little about it. There’s missing teens, dead bodies, gritty detectives all set in a newly reunified East German small town. The trailer is in German with no subtitles. So there’s very little to be gathered there other than the overall aesthetic which, honestly, was almost good enough for me. The thing that pushed it over the edge to make me want to watch it was that it’s a recent remake of the Spanish film Marshland by Alberto Rodríguez. Now, I’d never seen that either, but a new language remake within 6 years is often a sign of a compelling story. From there, it’s all what the director (Christian Alvart) does with it. And, like I’d said, the look of the thing was to my tastes.