Little by the little, the social order gets out of balance when Kay’s approaches put the stability of Marc’s social and sexual blueprint into question. Marc has his family life all planned out with his wife pregnant (amazing as always: Katharina Schüttler) and the town house apartment next door to his parents ready for a stable petit bourgeois future.
Kay Engel (played by heartthrob-hottie Max Riemelt) is the new boy in town who joins the police team and quickly bonds with his colleague Marc (equally irresistible: Hanno Koffler). The story is simple, and yet complicated since it is set at two epicentres of heteronormativity: a male-dominated police squad and a middle class nuclear family to be. “Free Fall” - the feature-length debut of director Stephan Lacant, was quickly compared to “Brokeback Mountain” (minus the homophobia) and later did extraordinarily well at the German box office – not bad for a film that has “gay” written all over it (and now it’s out on DVD Stateside - so you can see for yourself). It was a small sensation at last year’s Berlin Film Festival when a gay love story about two German policemen gained buzz far beyond the usual special interest radar.
