Directed by:
Fatih AkinScreenplay:
Fatih AkinCinematography:
Rainer KlausmannComposer:
FM EinheitCast:
Jonas Dassler, Margarete Tiesel, Katja Studt, Marc Hosemann, Martina Eitner-Acheampong, Adam Bousdoukos, Victoria Trauttmansdorff, Uwe Rohde (more)Plots(1)
Hamburg’s St. Pauli district in the 1970s is a neighbourhood of night-time entertainment and its nocturnal figures: habitual drinkers and prostitutes, gambling addicts and other lonely souls. Fritz Honka, a short man with thick horn-rimmed glasses and an unfortunate face, is one of them. An unskilled labourer, he picks up lonely older women, down-at-heel drinkers, in a local boozer called Zum Goldenen Handschuh (The Golden Glove). Nobody realises that he batters and strangles these women in his attic apartment, then dismembers them and disposes of their remains behind the attic wall. Distributing scented air-fresheners throughout the building to disguise the stench of decay, he blames the neighbouring Greek family for the penetrating smells. Based on the true case of serial killer Fritz Honka and on Heinz Strunk’s 2016 crime novel, Fatih Akin has created a portrait of a socially depraved, violent criminal, driven by misogyny, sexual greed and sentimentality. Akin’s film is a social study of the flip side of the then recent economic miracle; it is about individuals thrown off-kilter by the war and post-war turmoil in a dark Germany wholly lacking in confidence. (Berlinale)
(more)Cast
![Jonas Dassler](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/466/160466168_7b81d3.jpg)
Jonas Dassler
Germany
Best movies:
Never Look Away (2018)
The Silent Revolution (2018)
The Golden Glove (2019)
![Margarete Tiesel](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/167/257/167257337_68dd78.jpg)
Margarete Tiesel
Austria
Best movies:
The Collini Case (2019)
The Golden Glove (2019)
Paradise: Love (2012)
![Katja Studt](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/276/160276356_16df43.jpg)
Katja Studt
West Germany
Best movies:
Sunshine (1999)
The Golden Glove (2019)
Deadly Maria (1993)
![Marc Hosemann](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/153/626/153626393_19a34a.jpg)
Marc Hosemann
West Germany
Best movies:
Die Kirschenkönigin (2004) (series)
A Coffee in Berlin (2012)
The Golden Glove (2019)
![Martina Eitner-Acheampong](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/589/160589905_99d431.jpg)
Martina Eitner-Acheampong
East Germany
Best movies:
The Golden Glove (2019)
We Are Young. We Are Strong (2014)
Aenne Burda - Die Wirtschaftswunderfrau (2018) (TV movie)
![Adam Bousdoukos](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/620/159620064_ea8fd4.jpg)
Adam Bousdoukos
West Germany
![Victoria Trauttmansdorff](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/165/160165212_e45035.jpg)
Victoria Trauttmansdorff
Austria
Best movies:
System Crasher (2019)
The Golden Glove (2019)
Hannah Arendt (2012)
![Uwe Rohde](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/937/159937320_8a8ce3.jpg)
Uwe Rohde
West Germany
Best movies:
Do Fish Do It? (2002)
My Brother Simple (2017)
The Experiment (2001)
![Greta Sophie Schmidt](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/684/160684178_d13c66.jpg)
Greta Sophie Schmidt
Germany
Best movies:
The Golden Glove (2019)
Rheingold (2022)
![Hark Bohm](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/162/289/162289356_65055c.jpg)
Hark Bohm
German Empire
Best movies:
Knockin' on Heaven's Door (1997)
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (series)
Underground (1995)
Heinz Strunk
West Germany
Best movies:
The Golden Glove (2019)
Forever Never Anywhere (2007)
Banklady (2013)
![Tristan Göbel](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/164/894/164894644_a2780c.jpg)
Tristan Göbel
Best movies:
The Golden Glove (2019)
Goethe! (2010)
West (2013)
Laurens Walter
West Germany
Best movies:
Generation War (2013) (series)
The Golden Glove (2019)
Carlos (2010) (TV movie)
![Philipp Baltus](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/937/159937311_837f77.jpg)
Philipp Baltus
West Germany
Best movies:
Head-On (2004)
The Golden Glove (2019)
Soul Kitchen (2009)
![Tom Hoßbach](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/158/245/158245354_86bc11.jpg)
Tom Hoßbach
Germany
Best movies:
The Golden Glove (2019)
Loverboy (2017) (TV movie)
Iron Sky (2012)
![Jessica Kosmalla](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/307/160307435_823952.jpg)
Jessica Kosmalla
West Germany
Best movies:
The Golden Glove (2019)
Polizeiruf 110 (1971) (series)
Zwei Frauen (1989)
Dirk Böhling
West Germany
Best movies:
Curveball (2020)
The Golden Glove (2019)
The Last Execution (2021)
![Jens Weisser](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/168/843/168843191_atujjd.jpg)
Jens Weisser
Germany
Best movies:
Dying (2024)
The Golden Glove (2019)
Polizeiruf 110 (1971) (series)
![Simon Goerts](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/778/160778183_715d9d.jpg)
Simon Goerts
Best movies:
The Golden Glove (2019)
Soul Kitchen (2009)
Chiko (2008)
Klaus Bobach Rios
Best movies:
The Golden Glove (2019)