"Counter-Investigation" was a well-told crime yarn stylishly presented.
The film's central focus is a hard-boiled detective who becomes obsessed with the murderer of his daughter. Richard Malinowski is the detective who was negligent in leaving the daughter alone. After her death and the conviction of the bookish Daniel Eckmann, Malinowski has his doubts and pursues his private investigation.
Despite its slow pace, the film built good dramatic tension as we came to know behavior of the prisoner Eckmann and his nemesis Malinowsky. The sly dog in prison gets a pen pal who falls in love with him and gives false testimony that helps spring him from jail.
Detective Malinowski appears to be played for a sucker as Eckmann is finally freed. But the film's big plot twist involves Malinowski's diabolical revenge plot due to his obsession.
The film was especially unpleasant when one thinks of the psychological warfare waged by the detective and how he was taking up valuable time of the police in a major ploy of misdirection to fool Eckmann.
The film's central focus is a hard-boiled detective who becomes obsessed with the murderer of his daughter. Richard Malinowski is the detective who was negligent in leaving the daughter alone. After her death and the conviction of the bookish Daniel Eckmann, Malinowski has his doubts and pursues his private investigation.
Despite its slow pace, the film built good dramatic tension as we came to know behavior of the prisoner Eckmann and his nemesis Malinowsky. The sly dog in prison gets a pen pal who falls in love with him and gives false testimony that helps spring him from jail.
Detective Malinowski appears to be played for a sucker as Eckmann is finally freed. But the film's big plot twist involves Malinowski's diabolical revenge plot due to his obsession.
The film was especially unpleasant when one thinks of the psychological warfare waged by the detective and how he was taking up valuable time of the police in a major ploy of misdirection to fool Eckmann.