Zurich drug agent Herbert Strähl (Roeland Wiesnekker) dreams of making a big catch. Yet the only fish he manages to catch is the piranha in the aquarium tank he has at home. He laboriously persists in grappling with small-time dealers and fixers while being left in the lurch again and again by his colleagues Ruedi (Mike Müller), Dani (Martin Hug) and Marco (Andrew Mitchell). Strähl hides his loneliness and his yearning for love behind fits of rage, amphetamines and shouting fits until his choleric temperament finally becomes his undoing: as he's conducting a house search, a junky jumps out of the window. Strähl is suspended. And that's just the beginning of his problems. Suddenly Strähl finds himself at the mercy of two fixers: the soccer fana-tic René (Manuel Löwensberg) and his girlfriend Carol (Johanna Bantzer) could exonerate him with their testimony. But Strähl's attempts to persuade them fail in face of Carol's stubbornness. In desperation, he ends up raiding the small-time dealer Beko (Nderim Hajrullahu) and stealing from his stash of heroin to get René and Carol to relent. This sets off a chain of events that brings the big catch within reach... > Download filmflyer (PDF) > Download press kit (PDF)		Drama, 2004 82min, 35mm Original version: Swiss German / Albanian Screenplay: Michael Sauter & David Keller Director: Manuel Flurin Hendry Photography: Filip Zumbrunn Editor: Markus Welter Sound: Ruedi Guyer Music: Michael Sauter "Air Afrique" Cast: Roeland Wiesnekker, Johanna Bantzer, Mike Müller, Nderim Hajrullahu Premiere: 24.01.2004 Festivals: (selection) Max Ophüls Preis Film Festival, Saarbrücken; FilmKunstFest, Schwerin; Locarno International Film Festival; Cologne Conference; Ramallah International Film Festival; Slamdance Film Festival; Bradford Film Festival; New European Film Festival, Bilbao; Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival; Sevilla Film Festival; Film Festival of Tamil Nadu, Chennai, India Awards: Best Newcomer, Saarbrücken; NDR Director's Award, Schwerin; Best Main Role, Best supporting Role, Prize of de Juy, Swiss Film Prize Production: Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion Co-production: ZDF Das kleine Fernsehspiel; SF DRS; ARTE Producer: Susann Rüdlinger & Samir Commissioning editors: Christian Cloos (ZDF), Susann Wach (SF DRS), Doris Hepp (ARTE) World rights: Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion World sales: Telepool Distribution (CH): Look Now! Filmdistribution