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Phantomschmerz (2018)

98 min · Drama, thriller film

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Directors

Andreas Olenberg

Cast

Daniel Littau, Christine Kroop, Sven Martinek, Jessica Boehrs

After a taxi ride with a drunk chief physician, Finn begins to question the account of his younger brother’s death.

The story

Two years after his younger brother’s death, taxi driver Finn picks up the drunk chief physician Ben Eisberg. During their ride, a conversation with the doctor leads Finn to suspect that his brother’s death happened differently from the account Finn and his parents were given.

Full plot (contains spoilers)

Two years after the death of his younger brother, taxi driver Finn picks up the drunk chief physician Ben Eisberg. After Ben’s brother had died on the operating table, Ben had delivered the news of the death to his parents. During the ride, Finn gets talking with the chief physician and increasingly suspects that his brother’s death happened differently from the way he and his parents were told. He contacts the clinic where his brother was admitted after the accident and discovers that it has no records of his brother at all. This strengthens his suspicion that the chief physician who treated his brother at the time lied to them about the cause of death and is trying at all costs to conceal a terrible secret. The film unfolds as a thriller in which Finn and his new love, Ellie, become entangled. Ellie, a student, met Finn on the same night he drove the chief physician in his taxi. His brother’s death had already caused a family drama in Finn’s family years earlier, and now, because of his investigation, it plunges another family into a serious crisis.

Genres

Drama, thriller film

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