Eddie Izzard as Johann Tannhäuser: A secretive, agoraphobic crime lord who favors chess.
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The story is set in the neo-noir city of Brüteville, a dystopian city fought over by two vicious mob bosses, agoraphobic elitist Johann Tannhäuser (Eddie Izzard) and doltish Racken (Eric Roberts).
Harte and Merlini are soon swept up into a complex and bizarre plot involving the death of Linda Skelton, an agoraphobic heiress, at her home on Skelton Island, a tiny island in the East River of New York City.
Fischer's novel, Voyage to the End of the Room was published in 2003, and concerned an agoraphobic ex-dancer.
Ulf Hannerz quotes a 1960s remark that traditional anthropologists were "a notoriously agoraphobic lot, anti-urban by definition".