Kill Daddy GoodnightMichael Glawogger's searing feature tells a story of two converging lives.
Rupert "Ratz" Kramer is a 35-year-old shaggy-haired, hash-smoking bohemian, who is fighting his own quiet inner battles. Tortured by feelings of guilt towards his mother and full of hate for his father, he spends his time developing a bizarre computer game in which players vent their patricidal impulses in cyberspace.
Travelling an opposite path is Jonas, who also is racked by guilt. As a boy, Jonas witnessed his father's murder and has devoted his life to finding the Nazi war criminal responsible.
The lives of the two men converge when Ratz receives an unexpected call from a long-lost lover, which takes him to New York, where his video game is destined to become an underground hit.
This is a powerful, sobering story that explores still-unaddressed issues of individual choices made during the Holocaust era.
