A Hitman’s Solitude Before the Shot2014

Director
Florian Mischa Boeder

Acters

Benno Fuermann (Koralnik)
Mavie Hoerbiger (Rosa)
Wolf Roth (Lieutenant General Vanhaarten)
Rolf Berg (Commissioner)
Erik Madsen (Olsen)
Mike McAlpine (Stevenson)

The over-ambitious Koralnik has a dream job: he is a contract killer for a secret EU programme.

But even eight years after his training he still hasn‘t had a single hit. Bored and frustrated, he lives according to the programme‘s strict rules – withdrawn, no social contact and constantly undercover. One day, the shy Rosa crashes into his car and life. Before he knows it, Koralnik is having dinner with her. For the first time, he can flee his everyday misery for an evening of company. But then the telephone rings. It’s Koralnik‘s first job. With Rosa alongside, Koralnik sets off on a chaotic odyssey through a night in which nothing goes according to plan. It is only when Koralnik‘s target is revealed to be none other than one of his colleagues that the rigid concept by which he lives finally comes into question. He is confronted with the dilemma of either protecting his secret programme or drawing a line under his unfulfilled existence as a killer. It is the biggest liar of them all, Rosa, who forces him to confront his own life’s lie.

“It works pretty well, and Fuermann has just the right amount of pent up aggression for the frustrated Koralnik.” – Screen Daily

“Overly dramatic lighting and the tongue-in-cheek atmosphere of a 50s noir B-movie mix incredibly well with bloodcurdling slapstick and the performances of Benno Fuermann and Mavie Hoerbiger, who noticeably delight in taking a Bourne premise and shredding it through both the European bureaucracy and German provincialism.” – FFCGN

“Funny, with well written dialogues and fine nuanced acting.” – FWKurtz