1962: Johannes Leinert travels with his doctoral supervisor to a physics conference at the Hotel Esplanade in the Swiss Alps. An Iranian scientist is to give a groundbreaking lecture on quantum mechanics. But the speaker, who is expected to deliver nothing less than a theory of everything, is late and the high society passes the time with witty dinner parties and elegant ski trips. When one of the physicists dies in a monstrous manner, two investigators appear on the scene, suspecting murder. While bizarre cloud formations appear in the sky, Johannes gets on the trail of a secret that has taken root deep beneath the mountain.

The film cleverly plays with genre boundaries and tells an atmospheric story in grandiose images and with a great deal of love for the profession. In a style somewhere between Hitchcock's great crime classics and David Lynch's thrillers, THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING proves that crime thrillers can be more than just solid predictability in practice.

ENG: 1962. Johannes Leinert travels with his doctoral advisor to a physics conference at the Hotel Esplanade in the Swiss Alps. When one of the physicists dies a monstrous death, two investigators arrive, suspecting murder.
The film cleverly plays with genre boundaries, telling a story with great inventiveness and a love for the craft. Stylistically situated somewhere between the great crime classics of Hitchcock and David Lynch, THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING proves that crime fiction can be much more than the ever-predictable fare. (German with English subtitles)