Iron Curtain Shadow

David Ondříček
Ivan Trojan, Sebastian Koch, Sona Norisová, Jirí Stepnicka, David Svehlík, Marek Taclík, Filip Antonio
2012
Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland
Completed
Czech, Polish, German
106 minutes
Detailed introduction
This film (drama)Also known asVe stínu,is aCzech Republic, Slovakia, PolandProducerwomen sex,At2012Released in year
。The dialogue language isCzech, Polish, German,Current Douban rating7.2(For reference only)。
Set in Prague in 1953, this suspenseful crime drama follows honest police captain Hakl (Trojan) and his investigation of a seemingly mundane robbery at a goldsmith’s shop. In a fraught political climate, this incident is seized on by the Communist authorities, who require a smokescreen for their own, far grander, deception. On the orders of State Security, Hakl’s investigation is taken over by Major Zenke (Sebastian Koch, The Lives of Others), an East German specialist, who has been told to “prove” that the gold was stolen by the Jewish community to finance Zionist terrorism. But the experienced Hakl’s instincts puts him on the path of an altogether different story. Can one just man stand up to the forces of an increasingly oppressive state? The shadow of the past looms over all involved, and this can make a culprit of a victim and a hero of a culprit. Somber and atmospheric, this is a moving and compelling study of the Stalinist era.