A refugee vanishes into Amsterdam's shadows—but what exactly is he running from?
The story of a war refugee who's hiding in Amsterdam.
Acting
Tom Hulce's fractured, whispered performance
Cinematography
Amsterdam as labyrinth of fog and neon
Direction
Andrejew's Polish New Wave formalism
Director
Piotr Andrejew
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Andrejew was Andrzej Wajda's cinematographer before defecting; this was his only feature as director.
Banned in Poland until 1989, the film channels Eastern European paranoia through Western European noir aesthetics—Amsterdam as metaphor for purgatory.
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