New Thriller 'I Is Another' Flips the Script on Power, Ego, and Who Gets to Tell the Truth

Proximity to Power

Director Felix Randau just premiered a psychological thriller at Locarno that hinges on one of history's strangest angles: the true (or true-ish) story of Heinrich Himmler's masseur. The film, I Is Another, stars Claes Bang alongside Valerie Pachner and Susanne Wuest, and it's not a straightforward historical drama — it's a head game about how a man can convince himself that serving evil somehow absolves him from it.

The whole project is built on unreliable narration. A guy giving backrubs to one of the Nazi regime's architects tells himself he's subtle, powerful, maybe even heroic — that maybe his proximity saved lives. The film interrogates that delusion hard. It's less about what actually happened and more about how ego, validation, and self-deception work when you're caught in something monstrous.

Randau and his cast are pushing into uncomfortable territory: the psychology of complicity, the stories men tell themselves to sleep at night, and how close you have to get to power before you stop seeing it clearly. That's the real thriller here — not the history, but the lie the masseur believes.

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