Der Samurai (2014)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2014
	Director: Till Kleinert
	Actors: Michel Diercks, Pit Bukowski, Uwe Preuss
	Country: D
	Genre: Horror
	Conditions of visioning: 11.07.2014, Cinema des Arcades, NIFFF14
Synopsis: A young police officer (Diercks) investigates the presence of a lone wolf in a small German village. He delivers a sword to a unknown transvestite (Bukowski), and will then hunt him down while he feels that this meeting has changed him.
Review: Till Kleinert has directed this movie as the end project for his cinema studies, and the quality of the product is very high when you know that. It is not as impressive as another end-of-studies movie I have recently seen: Robin Hood, but still very seriously done. The story may be a bit confusing and the references mismatched, so much that the first questions to the director at the end of he movie he just presented at he NIFFF14 were: "what is the meaning of your movie?" and "what does the samurai mean?" and "what does the wolf represent?". He patiently replied to those questions although I think the public should have more thought about it by themselves before asking. For a long time I believed the transvestite Samurai (yes that's a man on the poster) was another side of the policeman's schizophrenic brain, like Tyler Durden in Fight Club. This guess did not come true but the director confirmed that this is one message he wanted to convey. So the movie is not perfect but it is short enough (80 min) that I didn't get bored and liked the originality.
Rating: 5 /10