The Girl in the Fog

Anna Lou, a 16-year-old girl, disappears in the fictional remote town of Avechot, in the Italian Alps near the Swiss border. Publicity-hungry Detective Vogel is called in to lead the case. Vogel is notorious for creating sensational media coverage around the cases he investigates, and, sure enough, local newspapers and television stations are soon bearing down relentlessly on Loris Martini, a local schoolteacher who is deeply in debt and becomes the prime suspect. In his haste to get a conviction, Vogel falsifies evidence by putting the teacher's blood on the girl's backpack. When the truth is revealed, Martini is cleared and granted compensation of 1 million euros. Meanwhile, a journalist posits the theory that the latest crime is the work of a past serial killer, known as the "Fog Man".

Ultimately, it turns out that Martini did kill Anna Lou, in a copycat crime. He then deliberately planted self-incriminating clues―but never concrete evidence―in order to spur Vogel to cut corners, just as he had done in a famous earlier case. It is later revealed, in a conversation between Vogel and Dr. Flores, a psychiatrist who lives in the town, that Vogel has murdered Martini so that he cannot benefit from his crime. In a final twist, Dr. Flores is revealed to be the Fog Man.

• Toni Servillo as Agent Vogel[2]
• Alessio Boni as Prof. Loris Martini
• Jean Reno as Dr. Augusto Flores
• Lorenzo Richelmy as Agent Borghi
• Galatea Ranzi as Stella Honer
• Michela Cescon as Agent Mayer
• Lucrezia Guidone as Clea
• Daniela Piazza as Maria Kastner
• Jacopo Olmo Antinori as Mattia
• Greta Scacchi as Beatrice Lehman
• Ekaterina Buscemi as Anna Lu

On Rotten Tomatoes, The Girl in the Fog have an approval rating of 75%, based on 8 reviews.[3]

• David di Donatello — Best New Director (Migliore Regista Esordiente) Donato Carrisi

• The Girl in the Fog at IMDb