In this edge-of-your-seat thriller inspired by real events, a British police officer and a Jewish woman fall in love amidst the political turmoil of 1930s Tel Aviv. With British control over Palestine precarious and conflict inevitable, everyone is forced to choose a side.
Acting
Irina Starshenbaum's fierce, wounded central performance.
Direction
Winterbottom's unflinching eye for moral rot in pretty places.
Director
Michael Winterbottom
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The real Geoffrey Morton was later involved in the killing of Avraham Stern, which the film foreshadows.
Winterbottom shot in Tel Aviv's actual Bauhaus district, using architecture as silent witness to the city's fractured identity.
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