When Markus realized a filthy girl in front of his house and took it into his flat, his women annika quickly realized something must be wrong with her. She does not feel comfortable with the imagination to have her in the flat for the night and she was right. The girl knows details about the couple she could not and should not know and starts an unnatural mind game, which goes far beyond rationality and should finally end up bloody.
Acting
Ciskowska's unsettling stillness — no jump scares needed.
Direction
Tight apartment becomes claustrophobic trap in minutes.
Director
Martin Czaja
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The title's German 'Rotkäppchen' deliberately evokes the Grimm fairy tale's darker original versions, where the wolf often wins.
Czaja and von Bornstädt shot this as a proof-of-concept for feature financing; the apartment is von Bornstädt's actual flat.
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