It has taken some time, but Peter Perg leads a group of soldiers back home to Vienna after the end of Great War. They had been brutalized while imprisoned in Russia. Perg finds the old social order in chaos. The Austro-Hungarian Empire had collapsed. He left his beloved wife and daughter behind to fight for the Emperor, but they are now gone. His aristocratic home is empty. He is forced to return to his police work when one of his soldiers gets ritualistically murdered. To many, he is the prime suspect.
I really like the style. It's half German silent film, half Se7en, half comic book. I would add some more rain, but it's got a cool look. I like diving into this time and place. I like the general premise and the lead character's suffering. I would probably just kill off the family. He would move heaven and earth to find them. He wouldn't care about anything else including the murder of his men. Finally, I have an issue with the ending. It has a big coincidence that really bugs me. Aside from those two issues, I really like this movie.
