Scorched Earth

 The ‘scorched earth policy’ defines a military tactic that consists of punishing the enemy by destroying everything he can use to defend himself. This is the scenario that Trojan, an expert thief who returns to Berlin after 12 years is thrown into when he finds a city that is foreign to everything he has ever known. In a new world of crime invaded by digital language, he must undertake a robbery with a series of gangsters he doesn't quite trust, in order to obtain a famous painting that they must deliver to a mysterious client. Winner of the Audience Award in the Panorama section of the Berlin Film Festival, the film by Thomas Arslan, a pioneer of the exquisite Berlin School, plunges us into a calculating thriller with classical overtones, where the past doesn't matter and loyalty and survival will be more valuable than the loot itself.