The Golden Glove: This is how the film differs from the original book
Since February 21 Fatih Akin's (45) film adaptation of "The Golden Glove" shocks German moviegoers. On which fierce, because real horror trip the audience must adjust, about the trailer already give enough information - and even more the bestselling book by Heinz Strunk (56). However, the strip differs in some points, the main character and serial killer Fritz Honka (Jonas Dassler, 23) and its environment concern.
Honka the monster
The way the reader or the movie viewer is introduced to the "monster" Honka could not be more different. The film begins with the image of a half-naked, dead woman. Honka tries in vain to cram them into a trash bag that is too small before reaching in unsure to the saw and attaching it to the neck of the corpse, which later turned out to be Elisabeth Gertraud Bräuer. In the background is "It's a tear on the road" by Adamo.
Although the book also opens with the dead Bräuer, does not put the find of their split corpse directly with Fritz Honka in connection. The reader is presented as a "small, crooked man with a crushed face and huge hands" as he sits for twelve hours and at three in the morning at the bar of his favorite pub, the wicked "Golden Glove".
The first words from his mouth in the book read: "I knew one, I loved her, at some point she was gone, but I know that she will come back ... she always smelled so good, that was unique (... ) But if the one looks like it is now, so far you can not sink so that it does not matter. "
More milieu, less murder
This difference alone makes it clear: Strunk's book concentrates much more on the tragic side of the murderer Honka. Whose father was in the concentration camp. Who was even in the youth concentration camp. The person suffering from cement scabies. The film deals with these aspects rather marginally, while the book is even more strongly hinted: With a few small changes, a little less strokes of fate in the life of Fritz Honka, he would probably have become a respectable citizen.
Demensprechend is in the film (of course, due to lack of time) less attention to the present in the book milieu study thrown. All the sad characters, who spend the day in the "Golden Glove" slowly in front of them, get less in favor of the main character and their atrocities, but still enough space.
An important strand is missing completely
In the book, the uneducated, poor world honkas the no less degraded high-society in person of Karl von Lützow is opposed. He drinks almost as much as Honka and forces women to humble and dangerous sex practices that rob them of their dignity and sometimes their lives.
In the film, this storyline does not occur at all, which takes an important message of the template: Those up there are basically just as bad.
