This Suffocating Now

In the village, he became known as the Soldier. He arrived with a document identifying him as the heir to an abandoned farm. It was there, sometime in the seventeenth century, during the Thirty Years’ War, in this German Protestant settlement, that he gradually earned the trust of the locals, presenting himself as a hardworking and devout man. Yet it is all part of a grand illusion — one that soon begins to surface in dangerous ways. Actress Sandra Hüller won the Silver Bear for Best Leading Performance at the Berlin International Film Festival.