It’s a German film with a German (Albrecht Schult) playing an American arrested and identified as someone who disappeared after getting caught up in murderous political intrigues.

This adaptation of a Max Frisch novel features Paula Beer as the missing/”dead” man’s widow, called on to make an ID, looks intriguing and timely in the saddest sense. The whole German-playing-an-American game is as common as Americans playing Brits, Italians, French, Germans, Russians, etc., speaking English with a stage accent hinting at wherever they’re from. Such movies from overseas (“Purple Noon” comes to mind) historically rarely make it to the North American market.

But this one piques one’s interest. It does.