This is a complex and interesting film about guilt and evil. A farmer in rural Germany is constantly reminded of the town’s instability following the killing of a local girl. The farmer soon discovers that a child killer has been captured in Berlin. All seems good, except that he has his reservations and soon reveals his suspicions that his own 13 year old son might be involved somehow. To calm his guilty conscience, he head to the city to discover that, Gabriel Engel the psychopath (brilliantly played) does not want to talk but to himself.
Michael the farmer soon pushes him to reveal the truth about the girls killing, an odd event since he has only killed boys, but instead Gabriel instigates the farmer to listen to his inner, evil, thoughts and challenges him to follow them. Things then turn to the worse when Michael starts following his evil thought and reaches a conclusion regarding the killing of the girl, not by Gabriel but by his son. A brilliant film exploring good and evil, and the nature of existence, definitely to see again.
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