Set in 1930s Tel Aviv during the British Mandate, this political thriller follows two British police officers, Thomas Wilkin and Geoffrey Morton, as they hunt down a poet and journalist who plots to oust the British authorities. The story of Zionist activist Avraham Stern.
Credits: TheMovieDb.
Film actors:
- Thomas Wellkin as Douglas Booth
- Jeffrey Morton as Harry Milling
- Shoshana Borochov as Irina Starshenbaum
- Alice Morton as Gina Bramhill
- Abraham Stern as Ori Albee
- Luba Borochov as Liudmyla Vasylieva
- Robert Chambers as Ian Hart
- Ralph Cairns as Oliver Cleese
- Shlomo Ben-Josef as Gar Mizlaff
- Harold McMichael as Tim Wallers
- Efrain Ilin: Washed Marcin
- David Shomlen as Samuel Kay
- Benjamin Zeroni as Doron Kochavi
- Ariye Yitzhak as Yotam Ishay
- Yuri Eisner: Avi Golomb
- Ronnie Stern as Erin Paloma Jonah
- Zelik Zak as Gianmarco Vettori
- David Raziel as Daniel Donskoy
- Tova Zwolay as Camila Calderoni
- Schiff: Ronnie Herman
- Leonid: Aaron Vodovoz
- Lubinski: Ariel Neil Levy
- Pastor: Tim Dash
- Police Interrogator 1: Lee Comley
- Police Interrogator 2: Matthew Thomas Robinson
- …: Matthew T. Reynolds
Photography team:
- Producer: Michael Winterbottom
- Screenwriter: Lawrence Coriat
- Production Design: Sergio Tribaston
- Producer: Andrew Eaton
- Director of Photography: Giles Nutkins
- Costume Design: Anthony Unwin
Movie review:
- CinemaSerf: This is a strangely immature iteration of a story that plays nicely with the expression that one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter. Douglas Booth stars as Wilkin, a mediocre Douglas Booth, a police detective stationed in British Palestine who appears to be decent on the surface. However, his boss “Chambers” (played by Ian Hart) is more like a player – he drafted the more “hands-on” Morton (played by the unremarkable Harry Melling) in order to get faster The results—especially the arrest of Stern (Ory Albee)—are determined to create a Jewish homeland and don’t care much about which tactics he uses to achieve that goal. The personal stories are largely historical fact, so there’s no real danger here, but it’s an interesting hypothetical about how the British tried to govern an area and a population that had no interest in being governed, and this was logistically useless The shortest possible time to manipulate anyone’s vision of the future. Palestinians and Jews could only agree on one thing – getting Britain out, but there has been little consensus since then as the bombs and bullets have continued to fly. To be honest, I found the contribution of the eponymous woman (Irina Stashenbaum) almost incidental to what is essentially a rather grim and brutal story about a territory that has always been, and continues to be, fought over. It looks good, but somehow it’s all a little too small – episodic even, and it needs a bigger hitter to tell the story more engagingly and convincingly. Pity.
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