Germany, 1981. State Security Service agent Harald Love is sent on a secret mission from the GDR to the Federal Republic, to verify an informant with the code name "Heinz" who is suspected to be a double agent. A job that may change his life forever...

1979 film by Niklaus Schilling

This film was one of the few attempts of the "New German cinema" to produce something like a horror film. Not quite a successful attempt in my opinion since director Niklaus Schilling seems to be rather afraid of anything to do with "genre" and therefore keeps out most the atmosphere that could be achieved by exploiting Germanic mysticism as he does here. The film has an unpleasantly pretentious aura and could've made much more of its theme and locations. It really requires some endurance, especially during many of the redundantly chatty scenes - I actually am into slow-paced art films but I felt that the dozy pace here had no particular purpose, other than giving an impression of auteurism. However, there are some memorable, eerie moments, a handful of pittoresque shots (watch out, they're the ones I selected) and Schilling's wife Elke Haltaufderheide (who also starred in Rudolf Thome's cult film DETEKTIVE) delivers a memorable performance as the haunted woman around whom the film evolves. Plot-wise, the film introduces a dull music publisher who travels to a remote village in the Luneburg Heath (the German version of Dartmoor) where he intends to purchase the house of a recently deceased man. He is accomodated at the house by the wife of the deceased, a rather mysterious lady with an air of tragedy around her. At night, he is plagued by uncanny nightmares in which the woman puts flowers onto his grave, rather than her husband's...

1977 film by Niklaus Schilling

故事围绕一列从荷兰开往瑞士的“莱茵黄金号”列车展开。一个事业有成的外交官，他的貌美有气质的妻子却和一个在“莱茵黄金号”列车上售卖小吃饮料的货郎秘密展开了一段婚外情。一天，外交官发现了妻子的秘密，于是恼羞成怒的他抄起裁纸刀捅向妻子。事后他惊慌失措地下了列车，却迫于内心的懊悔，乘上出租车追赶妻子。而此时，妻子努力地掩盖自己的伤口，最终却因为流血过多，生命一点点流失……（豆瓣电影字幕翻译2.0小组）