DER GOLDENE HANDSCHUH / THE GOLDEN GLOVE

This is a gruesome tale of notorious German serial killer Fritz Honka who haunted Hamburg's red light district in the 1970s. The film follows Honka as he frequents his favorite bar, the Golden Glove, where schmaltzy German songs move the boozy bar hounds to tears and drinking is a reflex against pain and longing. There, Honka, a pitiful loser chasing after lonely women, keeps more than just secrets in the attic.

Fatih Akin (Hamburg, 1973) is a German film director, screenwriter and producer. He attended the University of Fine Arts of Hamburg to study visual communications and graduated in 2000. He has won numerous awards. In 1995, he wrote and directed his first short feature, Sensin - You're the One! (Sensin - Du bist es!), which received the Audience Award at the Hamburg International Short Film Festival. His second short film Weed (Getürkt, 1996) received several national and international festival prizes. His first full length feature film, Short Sharp Shock (Kurz und schmerzlos, 1998) won the Bronze Leopard at Locarno and the Bavarian Film Award in 1998. His other films include: Solino (2002), Head-On (Gegen die Wand, 2004) which won the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, The Edge of Heaven (Auf der anderen Seite, 2007), which won Best Screenplay at the Cannes Film Festival, and the film In the Fade (Aus dem Nichts, 2017), the winner of the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film.