Stiller

Stiller (2025) is a Swiss-German drama you can watch online on iFILM, adapted by Stefan Haupt from Max Frisch's celebrated novel. An American named James White is detained at the Swiss border. The police are convinced he is really Anatol Stiller, a sculptor who vanished years earlier.

White refuses to play along. He insists he has never been this man, never seen the city, never met the wife they keep mentioning. Yet the evidence stacks up, and when Stiller's wife is brought in to identify him, she looks at the prisoner like she knows exactly who he is. Albrecht Schuch plays a man who is either lying to investigators or desperately fleeing his own past; Paula Beer holds the key to whatever happened before. The deeper it goes, the harder it gets to tell where the deception ends and a borrowed life begins.

Frisch wrote Stiller about the burden of being yourself and the pull of becoming someone else, and Haupt keeps that unease intimate — close on faces, patient with silence, never reaching for melodrama. It rewards viewers who like a detective setup that turns into a quiet argument about identity. Stream Stiller (2025) online on iFILM.