You have to be quite grateful if filmmakers choose interesting literary sources, like the novels of Leo Perutz, instead of doing half-heartedly remakes or rip-offs of stuff you've seen a thousand times before. This movie is actually quite well made and better than average, but it loses the overall ambiguity of the novel, not only by concentrating on the love story contained within. But if you don't have any chance to get an english translation of the book - the story is absolutely marvellous and predates the paranoid masterpieces of Philip K. Dick.
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Amazing
IMDbUser202430 March 2024
This early Christoph waltz performance is extremely underrated. You'll find not many people at all mention this movie, however I find this to be one of my favourites that Christoph Waltz has put in today. I do believe that thrust could have been featured in the Oscars all the back in 1991. A movie that I find to stand out from the rest and really gives an argument to be up there in the movie hall of fame. Such a shame such masterpiece has been ignored in the film industry. I will share this movie with as many of my friends as possible to spread the word of this break taking movie. Christoph Waltz was once a mediocre actor to me however, after watching St. Petri Schnee I can admittedly say Christoph Waltz just might be my favourite actor of all time just in front of Daniel Day-Lewis another Mount Rushmore actor.
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