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6.5/10 • 37

2024-01-252h 1m

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A political thriller that unfolds during the British Mandate in 1930s Tel Aviv, following two British police officers, Thomas Wilkin and Geoffrey Morton, in their hunt for poet and Zionist activist Avraham Stern, who is plotting to evict British authorities.

Directors
Michael Winterbottom
Editors
Marc Richardson

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  1. Douglas Booth

    Douglas Booth

    Thomas Wilkin

  2. Harry Melling

    Harry Melling

    Geoffrey Morton

  3. Irina Starshenbaum

    Irina Starshenbaum

    Shoshana Borochov

  4. Gina Bramhill

    Gina Bramhill

    Alice Morton

  5. Aury Alby

    Aury Alby

    Avraham Stern

  6. Liudmyla Vasylieva

    Liudmyla Vasylieva

    Luba Borochov

  7. Ian Hart

    Ian Hart

    Robert Chambers

  8. Oliver Chris

    Oliver Chris

    Ralph Cairns

  9. Gal Mizrav

    Gal Mizrav

    Shlomo Ben Yosef

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CinemaSerf

Mar 6, 2024

6/10

This is a curiously undercooked iteration of a story that well exemplifies that expression about one man's terrorist being another's freedom fighter. It's the underwhelming Douglas Booth who is Wilkin, a police detective based in British-administered Palestine and a man who has a semblance of decency to him. His boss "Chambers" (Ian Hart) is a bit more of a player, though - and he drafts in the much more "hands-on" Morton (the unremarkable Harry Melling) to get results more quickly - not least the apprehension of Stern (Aury Alby) who is determined to establish a Jewish homeland and doesn't much care which tactics he uses to accomplish that. The personal story is largely historical fact, so there's no real jeopardy here, but it's an interesting postulation on just how the British tried to administer a region and a population that had no interest in being administered, and that was being logistically manipulated with the shortest of term vision for anyone's future. Palestinian and Jew could agree on just one thing - get the UK out, but thereafter there was little consensus as the bombs and the bullets continued to fly. To be honest, I found the contribution of the eponymous woman (Irina Starshenbaum) to be almost incidental to what is essentially a rather dryly brutal story of a territory that always has been and will be fought over. It looks fine, but somehow it's all just a little too bitty - episodic, even, and it needed a bigger hitter to deliver the narrative more engagingly and convincingly. Pity.

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
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Revenue
$104,801.00
Keywords
tel aviv, israelzionismbased on true storyenglish policepolitical thriller1930s