Any telemovie with Joan Plowright should be brilliant, but having said that, in context of roles that suit. To stick a bunch of very English middle class actors into a movie about post WW2 early Socialist Prague, just does not gel. The acting, the mannerisms, the ways of speaking & living seem to have little in common with the essence of an Eastern European culture. Maybe others do not see that as an issue, but to me it prevents believability.
The final scenes give you a true sense of the insanity & terror of living in a repressive regime such as those of Eastern Europe in the Stalinist era.
Other than that, basically a very long movie with little to captivate.
The final scenes give you a true sense of the insanity & terror of living in a repressive regime such as those of Eastern Europe in the Stalinist era.
Other than that, basically a very long movie with little to captivate.