Wahrheit wird kalt serviert

An abstruse cooking show unfurls into a kaleidoscope of the strikingly diverse spheres of influence of organised crime and those affected by it. ”Wahrheit wird kalt serviert” (Truth is served cold) turns its gaze to the reality of the Italian Mafia in Germany and illuminates how these entrenched networks shape the economy, society and the texture of everyday life.

Through a research-based approach, the collective ISO 3591 melds documentary material with fictionalised biographies. Family life and shared meals sit beside voices from courtrooms and investigation files, memories of violence and intimidation, and shadowy situations from the restaurant trade. At its core lies the imperative to break the silence that has, for decades, sustained mafia structures.