Where to Watch Gefährliche Nähe (2021)

Summary

Tax official and family man Hugo Marquardt (Barnaby Metschurat) lost his wife two years ago and still tries to give his daughters Emma (Emilia Weisse) and Laura (Maya Lauterbach) as secure and carefree a life as possible. Slowly, a kind of normality seems to return to the family's life. Laura has her first steady boyfriend at 16 and Emma has also regained her cheerfulness thanks to her best friend Chrissie (Naila Schuberth). All this is shaken when Chrissie's father Marius Milner (Klaus Steinbacher) is released from prison after eight years. He had killed a man, but now swears for his wife Kitty (Maike Jüttendonk) and his daughter to leave his old life behind. Hugo tries to meet Marius as unprejudiced as possible, but it soon becomes clear that the ex-con is pulling him into a vortex of crime, violence and lies, from which it is difficult to escape.