FREE ON CINEGEEK.DE Christian Petzold - Yella 

Yella (Nina Hoss) is a reserved young woman, whose depth, whose intelligence no one has ever really sensed. But we know there is passion and the willingness to commit crime. Deep inside Yella. When all this breaks out, the thriller begins. Right at the beginning, Yella is pursued by her husband in the street. He's supposed to stalk her throughout the film. Only to escape him, Yella leaves her home in the so-called new federal states, the former territory of the GDR. She moves to the west to Hannover. Yella's mistake: Her husband gets to accompany her to the train station and that's how he finds out where she's going. It is a dangerous man who tries to kill them both. But Yella has courage, escapes and flees to the station. In Hannover Yella discovers the world of business. The man who hired her is himself locked out of his office and fired. She meets Philipp (Devid Striesow) in the hotel lobby and he asks Yella if she likes spreadsheets. Yes. Yella is an accountant. He teaches her the job of bending over close to the client, murmuring something in his ear. But Yella actually studies the spreadsheets. She points out deceptions and false values. Finally, she discovers that Philip is a fraud. Yella doesn't mind, but penetrates deeper into the business of the financial industry. (My friend Philip, who works there, confirms to me that everything in Yella is real). Yella seems ready for a career. But then there is her ex-husband Ben (Hinnerk Schoenemann). Of course he followed her. Sometimes Yella has such a noise in her head. Her ears are ringing, she hears the cry of a bird. Intuitively. They are inexplicable things, which are never explained. Because Christian Petzold never shows more than necessary. Instead, we must read Yella's mind. When she looks at Philip, she smiles almost imperceptibly. Then we see gloomy trees moving in the wind again. We hear the cries of birds. In the foreground, the business deals of the financial world. Philipp tests Yella, bequeathing her 25,000 euros too much. Will she pocket the money? Yes. Yella steals. She passed the test. It's also scary that she's attracted to a certain type of man, because Jørgen looks almost exactly like Ben. Both are ruthless and effective. But the cardinal question I get from a lot of our video store customers is: Did we just watch a horror movie without realizing it? (It was my colleague Thomas Groh who told me that Yella was an unofficial remake of "Carnival Of Souls").