I admit that the German film industry doesn't easily export its work, even over the Rhine, thru ARTE TV channel. We see many of TV movies, crime, detectives and gang war stories, most of them made for TV and strangely not for the big screen option. But this movie: DIE KATZE was shown in France in 1988, after a winner prize at Cognac crime film Festival, if I am right. Taut, tension packed, with not a second length, you deal here with a masterpiece, especially, I repeat, for a German feature. Götz George is outstanding as the criminal mastermind; he reminds me Preston Foster in KANSAS CITY CONFIDENTIAL. This kind of scheme could easily have been made as a mini TV show.
