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Original name: Der Goldene Handschuh
English name: The Golden Glove
Year: 2019
Run time: 115’
Language: German
Type (Colour/ Black & white): Colour
Country: Germany, France
Director: Fatih Akin
Producer: Nurhan Şekerci-Porst, Fatih Akin, Herman Weigel
Cast: Jonas Dassler, Margarete Tiesel , Katja Studt, Adam Bousdoukos
Screenplay: Fatih Akin
Cinematographer: Rainer Klausmann
Editor: Andrew Bird, Franziska Schmidt-Kärner
Sound Designer: Jörn Martens
Music Composer: FM Einheit
Costume Designer: Katrin Aschendorf
Production Designer: Tamo Kunz
Production Company: Bombero International
World Sales: The Match Factory
World Sales Phone: +49 221 539 709-0
World Sales Email: info@matchfactory.de
Fatih Akin was born in Hamburg, Germany in 1973. He studied at the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg (HfBK). His international breakthrough came when he won the Golden Bear in 2004 for Head On which made him one of the most celebrated directors in Europe. His next international hit, The Edge of Heaven (2007), won Best Screenplay at Cannes as well as the European and German Film awards. His film In The Fade (2017) won, among other prizes, a Golden Globe.
Hamburg-St.Pauli in the 1970s: At first glance, Fritz "Fiete" Honka is a pitiful loser. The man with the broken face carouses through his nights in the neighbourhood dive bar, the "Golden Glove", chasing after lonely women. Like everyone else, he would also like to have closer relations with the opposite sex, but whether due to the insecurity caused by his looks or as a result of alcoholism, he suffers from impotence. None of the regulars suspect that the apparently harmless Fiete is actually a monster. The film is based on a true story and the novel of the same name by Heinz Strunk. It tells the story of Fritz Honka, a man who murdered numerous women, and his favourite bar, the "Golden Glove", where schmaltzy German songs move the boozy bar hounds to tears and drinking is a reflex against pain and longing.
