In The Fade

Director: Fatih Akin

2017, Germany, 95, R

Screenwriter: Fatih Akin and Hark Bohm.

Cast: Diane Kruger, Denis Moschitto, Hanna Hilsdorf, Numan Acar, Ulrich Brandhoff.

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Born and raised in Germany, Diane Kruger found success in the States for films including Troy and Inglourious Basterds. But after returning home to make In the Fade, Kruger won a Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival–and an appreciative new fan base across Europe. As Katja, a working-class woman in Hamburg who is married to a reformed Kurdish former drug dealer (Numan Acar of TV’s Homeland), she seems to have created a stable life. Then one night her office is blown up by neo-Nazis, and she is left to find justice for her murdered family. From tense courtroom scenes to Katja’s solo attempts to take revenge, In the Fade nails the paranoia and need for empathy in a diversifying Europe. Academy Award nominee, Best Foreign Film.

“Much of Kruger’s remarkable portrait of love and grief is wordless, with the power to transcend both subtitles and national boundaries. Everything you need to know is in her face.” – Jada Yuan, New York magazine.