Review: 'Effigy: Poison and the City'

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ffigy, about a female serial killer in 1828 Germany and the groundbreaking female law clerk tasked with tracking her down, my mind—maybe like yours—pictured a period version of
Killing Eve. Obviously, I was immediately sold. And while this movie turned out to be very different from what I was expecting, it ended up being something that stood beautifully on its own, no comparisons needed.
Effigy is inspired by the true story of Gesche Gottfried (played by Suzan Anbeh), who was found guilty of killing 15 people (and attempting to kill about 20 more), including three husbands, her parents, her children, her brother, and other acquaintances. Elisa Thiemann plays Cato Böhmer, our narrator and a newly hired law clerk in the city at a time when women aren’t even allowed to attend university. She knows what it’s like, then, to be underestimated by the men around her, the very reason why Gottfried has been about to go undetected for so long.

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