Georgetown (2019)

Directed by

Christoph Waltz

Genre

crime film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 39m

Rated

R

Rating

5.9 of 10 from 200 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A younger man marries a wealthy older woman in Washington D.C. and climbs the city's social ladder. When she is found dead, he becomes the main suspect in her murder.

seriousdeliberateuneasymethodicalquiettensecharacter-driven

What happens

Georgetown is a 2019 American crime drama film directed by Christoph Waltz (in his feature directorial debut) and written by David Auburn. It is based on Franklin Foer's 2012 New York Times Magazine article "The Worst Marriage in Georgetown", which details the 2011 murder of 91-year-old socialite Viola Herms Drath by her much-younger second husband in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Waltz stars alongside Vanessa Redgrave, Annette Bening and Corey Hawkins. It had its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 27, 2019. It received a limited release in the United States on May 14, 2021, by Vertical Entertainment. The film opens with an on-screen disclaimer:This story does not, in any way, claim to be the truth. Nonetheless it is inspired by real events. The plot is based on and is a fictionalized account of the 2011 murder of Viola Herms Drath by her husband Albrecht Gero Muth. In the movie, Ulrich Mott, an ambitious, grandiose, and dishonest social climber becomes the main suspect in the death of his wealthy and much older wife, Elsa Breht. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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