brilliant

Rating: 10/10 (20 December 2007)

This is the movie of the year. it touches on themes and issues that should concern us all and was full of humanity. i do bot know how likely the scenario is or even if there is an element of truth to it, but you want it to be so. this is a real world film that picks away at the political fictions that we or others impose on us and reminds us that there are certain values that we should cherish as human beings.
The way that the protagonists prospered or did not after the fall of communism also had a ring of truth. the apparatchiks of freedom would be the apparatchiks of totalitarianism. I hope that this is/was picked up by the Oscars and not in the best foreign language category, judging by its run in London, its more mainstream and more important that the recent crop of Gulf movies to emerge from Hollywood.
Whats happened in Germany, they are now producing the best films in Europe! what i also liked was that I felt I was there. The dull civil service aspect and fear of saying the wrong thing were brought out really well.
If i had ever been tempted to be a secret agent,It would be this one.