A film of deep sadness and despair, and the director’s first film in black and white, The Last Hole is the mordant tale of a man haunted by the historic guilt of Germany who desperately tries to find redemption. Achternbusch portrays “der Nil” (The Nile), a flycatcher, beer drinker, and private detective from the Bavarian forest. “I am called ‘der Nil’ because I wander through ...