"Zurich" or "Die getäuschte Frau" is a co-production between the Netherlands, Germany and Belgium and the result is this film from last year that runs for slightly under 90 minutes. The director is Sacha Polak and it is probably one of his most known and most successful films so far. The writer is Helena van der Meulen and she and Polak also worked together on "Hemel", a fairly successful 2012 film, their most known work to-date. But back to this one here. "Zurich" received some awards attention here in Berlin and also at the Dutch Film Awards. According to IMDb, the first language here is German, but looking at the lead actress' origin, I am not too sure about that. Admittedly, there are a couple German actors in the cast, such as Sascha Alexander Gersak (who I quite like) and Tristan Göbel. But they really don't have a great deal of screen time, especially compared to lead actress Wende Snijders, who is in pretty much every scene of this one. She plays a character who discovers that her deceased boyfriend/husband led a double life and she dives deep into the scene of truck driving (where he worked) in order to find out what was going on exactly. Oh well.. the plot does not sound too interesting, does it? While I appreciated the lead performance on some occasions, I still must say I never cared too much for the character or her fate, at least not as much as I hoped I would. The emotional impact this film has (or I should say "doesn't have") is almost non-existent. Eventually, I can see the artistic approach, but I would only recommend the watch to big fans of Snijders. Everybody else can skip it unless they wanna see the most stunning pregnant woman they have seen in her life. Sadly, she is just a one-scene character and I am also not sure who the actress is that played her. She looked a bit like Claudia Eisinger, but then again she probably is not listed in the cast list here on IMDb as, during the ending credits, there were many more people listed than the 10 or so credited here on IMDb for their performances. Overall, a thumbs-down from me. Not recommended.
Review of Zurich
