The Golden Glove

2019 1h 50m DE

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6.9

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★6.9TMDB · 679

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Synopsis

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A serial killer strikes fear in the hearts of residents of Hamburg during the early 1970s.

“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”

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Cast

Jonas Dassler
Fritz Honka
Margarethe Tiesel
Gerda Voss
Katja Studt
Helga Denningsen
Martina Eitner-Acheampong
Frida
Tristan Göbel
Willi
Greta Sophie Schmidt
Petra Schulz
Marc Hosemann
Siggi Honka
Max Hopp
Erich Denningsen

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Fatih Akin
Writers: Fatih Akin
Languages: Greek, Italian, German
Countries: Germany, France

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ERA

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Released 7 years ago.

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2 / 8

WORLD

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Dialogue crosses 3 languages: Greek, Italian, German.

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3 / 8

WORLD

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International production across 2 countries: Germany, France.

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4 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Fatih Akin, shot by Rainer Klausmann. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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5 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by FM Einheit. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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6 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Franziska Schmidt-Kärner shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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7 / 8

CAST

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Jonas Dassler and Margarethe Tiesel and Katja Studt carry the top of the cast.

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8 / 8

WILD

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IMDB entry: tt7670212 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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The take

Fatih Akin directs. Rainer Klausmann behind the camera. FM Einheit scores. Franziska Schmidt-Kärner cuts. Produced in Germany, France. Dialogue in Greek, Italian, German.

Trivia

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1Released 7 years ago.
2Dialogue crosses 3 languages: Greek, Italian, German.
3International production across 2 countries: Germany, France.
4Directed by Fatih Akin, shot by Rainer Klausmann. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
5Original score by FM Einheit. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
6Editor Franziska Schmidt-Kärner shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
7Jonas Dassler and Margarethe Tiesel and Katja Studt carry the top of the cast.
8IMDB entry: tt7670212 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
9Classified under 13 themes, including "prostitute", "based on novel or book", "1970s", "red-light district".

The technical file

Cinematography: Rainer Klausmann
Original score: FM Einheit
Editing: Franziska Schmidt-Kärner
Production design: Tamo Kunz
Costume design: Katrin Aschendorf
Makeup / hair: Britta Balcke
VFX supervisor: Denis Behnke
Sound: Richard Borowski
Runtime: 110 min · 1h 50m
Status: Released
Original language: DE
IMDB: The Golden Glove (2019)

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SWITCH.2020-02-21
★ 2/10
I watch movies for a lot of different sensations, but “visceral nausea“ is not on the list. 'The Golden Glove' is a well-shot film (despite a deliberately grotesque aesthetic) that might be fun for transgression hungry viewers. I'm not that edgy - to me, this film is nothing more than a solipsistic group analysis session in which the audience is held hostage, believing there's a point to it all. - Jake Watt Read Jake's full article... https://www.maketheswitch.com.au/article/review-the-golden-glove-repellent-and-pointless
CinemaSerf2026-05-22
★ 7/10
The entirely convincing Jonas Dassler is almost unrecognisable here in this really quite uncomfortable to watch story of sexual and societal depravity. He is Honka, a man who lives in an attic room where he on occasion entertains ladies of all ages, shapes and sizes that he has either encountered in his favourite bar ("The Golden Glove") or on the street - often quite literally, or just about anywhere else their search for booze might take them. A bit like "Sweeney Todd", though - these women tend not to leave in anything like the state they arrived in. Indeed, in most cases leaving was more like eaving as the eaves of his roof were where their dismembered corpses usually ended up. That's not a spoiler, we know all along the fate of his guests so this isn't so much a mystery about a serial killer as an observation of the behaviour of a man with precisely no moral compass thriving in a sub-culture where people come and go without being missed, and where he can indulge his vodka-fuelled peccadilloes at will. At will and at willie are not quite the same thing though, and as a fair amount of brewer's droop starts to kick in this frustrates not just him but his expectant friends. Just how long can this go on before someone cottons on, or even develops a sense of smell? The pub itself is also a source of curiosity throughout the film with it's regulars divided into groups of largely unsavoury characters - some with two nick-names, and one called anus who has no idea what that actually meant (in English, of course). There is one scene towards the end where I felt the woman he had in his sights might well do for him instead, and that was quite funny to watch in a dark and filthy sort of fashion, but otherwise the brutality is maybe just a little too repetitious to be effective after a while and with virtually nothing to take from the dialogue I did feel a bit like a prurient fly on the wall watching people that I'd happily cross the street to avoid. Perhaps that is Fatih Akin's point. We don't care about the underbelly of society nor of the people who inhabit the grotty tenements and bedsits and so that's quite possibly why Honka gets away with his crimes for such a long time. There are a lot of characterisations for us to absorb here and I found a second viewing helped with some of the nuances I'd missed first time around. It's not an easy watch and after about half an hour it'd be quite easy to become distracted - but it is worth a couple of hours as a tale of how the other half live - and die.