The Dumpling Affair

The Dumpling Affair (Grießnockerlaffäre, 2017) is an Austrian-German crime comedy you can watch online on iFILM. Ed Herzog directs Sebastian Bezzel as a lazy village cop.

Franz Eberhofer is dragged out of bed in the dead of night: his boss Barschl, a man half the village despised, has been murdered. The catch — the weapon is Franz's own pocket knife, which makes the slacker policeman suspect number one. To clear his name he actually has to do some real police work, with his unflappable buddy Rudi tagging along.

Adapted from Rita Falk's bestselling Bavarian whodunits, the case unfolds at a stubbornly rural pace, somewhere between Mother's home cooking and the next stein of beer. Dry, deadpan and low on melodrama — comfort crime for people who want the body without the panic. Stream The Dumpling Affair (2017) online on iFILM.