Intrigo: Death of an Author

In Stockholm, David is contacted by his publisher. A manuscript by the famous author Germund Rein has turned up at the publishing house. David has translated the earlier works of Rein and is now given first option to tackle this one. However, the original manuscript has arrived in Sweden cloaked in strange circumstances, with a letter specifying it must be printed in its initial language. David also learns that Rein has committed suicide in the Atlantic Ocean. The letter must have been the last thing he wrote. The assignment takes David to Amsterdam. He finds parallels to his own life in Rein’s novel. To his vanished wife Eva, who according to the police most likely lost her life in the Austrian Alps some years earlier. But nothing is as it seems, and as Rein’s fiction becomes reality, David is forced to confront an uncomfortable truth.

Rating

R

Release Year

2020

Duration

01:46

Genres

Thriller, Drama

Director

Daniel Alfredson

Cast

Ben Kingsley, Benno Fürmann, Tuva Novotny