'Effigy: Poison and the City': Film Review | Hollywood Reporter
A modest true-crime tale that prioritizes history over thrills. TWITTER 12/18/2020 Udo Flohr's debut fictionalizes the hunt for the 'Angel of Bremen,' who poisoned 15 people nearly two centuries ago. Far from the movie viewers may expect when they hear the words "German serial killer," Effigy: Poison and the City takes a dignified, old-fashioned approach to homicidal insanity that befits its early-19th century setting. Based on a play by Peer Meter inspired by the crimes of real-life killer Gesche Margarethe Gottfried, aka "the Angel of Bremen," the film reimagines the killer's discovery and...