Tannöd – The Murder Farm

Katrin comes to a remoteGerman village to bury her mother, whom she hardly knew. She stays near the empty Danner farm where two yearspreviously, a family of five and a house servant were mysteriously slaughtered. Charles Danner, a vicious peasant hated by everyone, supposedly fathered the children of his scheming daughter. The unsolved murders weigh heavily on the farm community and its corrupt priest. The funeral degenerates into a hornet’s nest of accusations, as each gives their account of the Danner family, implicating others. What emerges is a web of collective hatred and guilt that has engulfed the community. The murderer is revealed to Katrin at the end of the film, but the full truth remains blurred in this village of the doomed where no redemption seems possible.