A German citizen happens upon a counterfeit coin lying in a gutter. The opening sequence of the movie gives a brief glimpse into the notion that the coin might be "cursed," as another passerby is struck down by a car while reaching for the coin in the middle of the road. Although the finder of the coin is at first glad, he soon regrets ever having picked it up.
IMDb gives the title as "Accident", whereas the more literal translation would be "Police Report: Assault", which I think takes on a very different tone. Kino splits the difference and just calls it "Uberfall". None of these really sums it up, but whatever.
Writer-director Ernő Metzner is probably better known as a production designer, and unfortunately he is not well known at all. He was forced into exile around 1933 and his career went downhill from there. This film is, in my opinion, one of the strongest of Kino's collection, and has that same shady crime element as such bigger films as "M". Metzner could have been a noir pioneer.
