Picks up steam from the ominous opening scene and ends as a quietly suspenseful thriller.
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New York PostJonathan Foreman
New York PostJonathan Foreman
The movie that deserved to win the Oscar for foreign-language film, and one of the best movies ever made about life behind the Iron Curtain.
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New York Daily NewsJami Bernard
New York Daily NewsJami Bernard
Feels like an old-fashioned movie in the way it deals with bold sacrifices made in the name of love, while its setting and chary view of the era's political machinations mark it as distinctly modern.