Otomo

Otomo (1999)

The true story of Otomo, a black man seeking work and asylum in the German city of Stuttgart. However, all he finds is racism, police trouble and his final destiny.

Date of release
1999-11-11
TMDB
6.2 / 10 (5)
Runtime
1h 25m
Genres
Drama
Director
Frieder Schlaich

Casting

Interesting facts

Otomo is a 1999 German drama film directed by Frieder Schlaich, distributed by ArtMattan productions. The plot is a fictionalised account of the events that led up to the 1989 double murder of police officers Harald Poppe and Peter Quast in Stuttgart, and follows the perpetrator, Frederic Otomo, in a reconstruction of the hours leading up to the killings.

Background

The movie is a fictionalized account of an event that occurred on 8 August 1989 in Stuttgart. Frederic Otomo, a Cameroonian who also used the name of Albert Ament from Liberia, was wanted for assaulting a tram employee when police located him within a few hours of the incident. He then attacked the arresting officers with a bayonet hidden in a rolled-up newspaper, killing officers Harald Poppe and Peter Quast and wounding three others.

Director Frieder Schaich, a native of Stuttgart, was inspired to make the film after the killings spread hysteria against any foreign workers through press reports. Schaich believed that Otomo, having fled from a war-torn region, was likely affected by a traumatic past and sought to find out more about Otomo's background.

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