STRÄHL
synopsis
Zurich drug agent Herbert Strähl dreams of making a big catch. Yet the only fish he manages to catch is the piranha in the aquarium tank he has at home. He laboriously persists in grappling with small-time dealers and fixers while being left in the lurch again and again by his colleagues Ruedi, Dani and Marco. Strähl hides his loneliness and his yearning for love behind fits of rage, amphetamines and shouting fits until his choleric temperament finally becomes his undoing: as he’s conducting a house search, a fixer jumps out of the window. Strähl is suspended. And that’s just the start of his problems...
original title: | Strähl |
country: | Switzerland, Germany |
sales agent: | Telepool |
year: | 2004 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Manuel Flurin Hendry |
film run: | 80' |
screenplay: | Michael Sauter, David Keller |
cast: | Roeland Wiesnekker, Johanna Bantzer, Nderim Hajrullahu, Manuel Löwensberg, Mike Müller, Andrew Mitchell, Raphael Clamer |
cinematography by: | Filip Zumbrunn |
film editing: | Markus Welter |
art director: | Georg Bringolf |
costumes designer: | Carol Luchetta |
music: | Michael Sauter |
producer: | Samir, Susann Rüdlinger |
production: | Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion AG, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF) |
distributor: | Look Now! |