Real-life serial killer Fritz Honka, who murdered and dismembered four Hamburg prostitutes in the 1970s, is profiled in Fatih Akin’s graphic true-crime reconstruction, 'The Golden Glove' ('Der Goldene Handschuh').

In Fatih Akin's adaptation of "The Golden Glove," a serial killer terrorizes 1970s Hamburg.

Of all the movies playing in competition here at the 69th Berlin Film Festival—officially known as the Berlinale—Fatih Akin’s The Golden Glove was the one...

Fatih Akin's disappointing follow-up to "In the Fade" luxuriates in grime and murder but has no deeper understanding of its real-life murderer

Fatih Akin's up-and-down filmography takes a precipitous plunge with this nauseating portrait of German serial killer Fritz Honka.

A serial killer plies his trade in 1970s Hamburg in Fatih Akin’s grim drama

Fatih Akin’s latest movie is a fetid stain on the CV of a good filmmaker. Akin has made the true story of a repulsive, grotesque serial killer into a repulsive, grotesque movie, a calamitous misfire for a critical darling of recent German cinema. This is a film that wallows in the most appalling sexual abuse,

If Akin’s goal is merely to pull away that curtain, it ultimately feels like a hollow unveiling.