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"Toter Winkel" is a German television film from spring this year that runs for about 1.5 hours and was written by Benjamin Braeunlich, his most known work perhaps at this point. The director here is Stephan Lacant and he is mostly known for "Freier Fall". Hanno Koffler, who played the central character in that one also shows up in here as you can already see from the poster here on IMDb. However, it is pretty misleading as Koffler may be in the center of it all at the very end, but everything before that he is just a supporting actor and Knaup, the guy on the top half on this poster is really the one and only lead. The film starts with an Eastern European family facing expulsion and then there is a massive jump ahead in time and we find out about the connection between the past and present that may or may not involve a terrorist group of which the central character's son may or may not be part of. I like Knaup, so I was a bit disappointed with how this turned out eventually. It's a bit of family drama with crime and perhaps thriller elements too, but none of it all is really on a level that impressed me. The one part I liked was about the young woman trying to hide from being sent back to her home country. But that part was relatively irrelevant in the now, which didn't help either, but I guess they knew this was among the best the film had to offer and that's why they brought her back for the ending. This pretty spectacular ending is probably also the reason why many people have rated this film highly here on IMDb, but I personally cannot forget all the mediocrity in the previous 80 minutes. That's why I give the overall outcome a thumbs-down here and don't recommend checking it out. This certainly could have been a way better movie given the talent involved in the production, but the script just wasn't good enough. Watch something else instead.