Thursday, 12 November 2020

Die Angst des Tormanns beim Elfmeter (1972)


 

 
A goalkeeper is sent off during a game for committing a foul. He spends the night with a cinema cashier, whom he kills afterwards.

Sparse, unsettling crime melodrama portrays an alienated, unpleasant protagonist in realistic German urban and rural settings without trying to explain his irrational actions; nevertheless, a classic of the New German Cinema era.
 
Halliwell**: "Disturbing film of the failure of communication, difficult but rewarding for the patient." 
 

 

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