Max von Sydow, in his ultimate movie position, does what he can to lend gravitas to this odd, stilted and contrived film, a fictional drama based mostly on a horrendous Nazi atrocity in occupied Greece in 1943, for which the query of reparations nonetheless grumbles on. In Kalavryta within the northern Peloponnese, almost 700 civilians had been shot by the Nazi forces, in chilling reprisal for Greek resistance fighters executing 78 German troopers taken prisoner. Von Sydow performs Nikolas, an ageing Greek author who as a younger boy miraculously escaped the bloodbath, however has been haunted by it ever since. Within the current day, Astrid Roos performs Caroline Martin, an bold Berlin lawyer who's tasked by a heartless and cynical German authorities to go to Greece and to seek out particulars that may undermine their case for reparations.
The tense occupation and slaughter of 1943 themselves are recounted in flashback, and director Nicholas Dimitropoulos makes a fairly workmanlike job of this drama. However the movie surprisingly insists on imagining a balancing “good German” who supposedly helps the Greek ladies and kids. It's his existence that Caroline refuses to make use of in opposition to the Greek authorities, on account of that predictable disaster of conscience to which the motion had been unsubtly main from the outset. She, in impact, turns into the movie’s second imaginary “good German”, whose behaviour is at odds with the cynical German authorities.
Oddly, Caroline lastly goes on a visit to Austria to interview the unhappy and saintly widow of this fictional good soldier, and she or he is performed by Alice Krige, trying if something youthful than Von Sydow, who was speculated to be a small boy on the time. The movie’s one second of actual energy comes when Caroline visits the real-life Museum of the Kalavrytan Holocaust and stands in entrance of the memorial gallery of pictures: the victims’ faces. That has actual substance. This movie doesn’t.
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