Der Samurai

Year: 2014
Director: Till Kleinert
Cast: Pit Bukowski, Michel Diercks, Kaja Blachnik, Janin Halisch, Ulrike Hanke-Hänsch, Christopher Kane, Gernot Kunert, Uwe Preuss, Ulrike Bliefert, Michael Fritz Schumacher
Genre: fantasy, horror, thriller
Runtime: 79 min.
Age: 18+
A wolf strives through the woods around an isolated German village. Jakob the young local police officer is onto him, but scents something more in the darkness. What he finds is a man, it seems, wild eyed, of wiry build, in a dress. He carries a katana, a Samurai sword. When the Samurai invites Jakob to follow him on his crusade towards the village, it becomes Jakob's mission to pursue the lunatic to end this wanton destruction. At the end of the night Jakob has experienced too much, is too far from whom he once was. Something hidden has been unleashed to meet the first rays of daylight.

Awards & Festivals:

Berlin International Film Festival – participation 
FEST International Film Festival – Audience Award (Best Film – Frontiers program)
The Optical Theatre Festival – Jury Prize (Best Feature Film)
Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival – participation 
Oldenburg Film Festival – participation
Fantastic Cinema Festival – participation 
Fangoria Chainsaw Awards nomination – Chainsaw Award           (Best Foreign-Language Film), Best Supporting Actor