The third adaptation of the popular novels by Wolf Haas (following COME SWEET DEATH and SILENTIUM, which screened in AFI's 2007 EU Film Showcase) from director Wolfgang Murnberger and star Hader is the most thrilling--and funniest--yet. Vienna slacker/sometime detective Brenner (Josef Hader) reluctantly takes on a car repo assignment that relocates him to a rural Alpine village. The trail of the deadbeat car owner goes cold at the town's famous chicken restaurant and inn, owned by the physically imposing Löschenkohl (Josef Bierbichler) and managed by the attractive Birgit (Birgit Minichmayr). But according to Porsche Pauli--Löschenkohl's hot-headed son, married to Birgit--there's a bigger mystery in need of investigating, involving Russian pimps, Slovakian hookers and large withdrawals from his father's bank account. And maybe that meat grinder down in the basement!

DIR/SCR Wolfgang Murnberger; SCR Josef Hader, Wolf Haas, based on the novel by Wolf Haas; PROD Danny Krausz, Kurt Stocker. Austria, 2009, color, 117 min. In German and Russian with English subtitles. NOT RATED

Friday, November 20, 9:30; Saturday, November 21, 10:00

AFI Member passes will be accepted.

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