Nazi POWs suspected of heinous acts are locked up in a Soviet women's prison run by vengeful female guards. To weed out the guilty, the innocent must pay. Can supposed enemies turn into great loves? Based on a true post-World War II story, this drama stars Thomas Kretschmann, John Malkovich and Vera Farmiga in a bitter game of cat and mouse and a battle between hate and humanity, mercy and revenge.
Acting
Farmiga's simmering rage versus Malkovich's bureaucratic cruelty.
Production
Gritty, frozen production design that you can practically smell.
Director
Tom Roberts
Vera Farmiga
Natalia
Thomas Kretschmann
Max
John Malkovich
Pavlov
Daniel Brühl
Klaus
Natalie Press
Zina
Patrick Kennedy
Peter
John Lynch
Yakov
Phillip Azarov
Ivan
Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė
Vera
Evgeny Mironov
Andrey
Thekla Reuten
Elena
Tatyana Yakovenko
Olga Alexandrova
Sergey Safronov
Ivan
Jenny Galloway
Liudmilla
Andrey Fedortsov
Anton
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Farmiga and Kretschmann reunited after 'The Manchurian Candidate'; their chemistry here is somehow even more cursed.
The 'true story' claim is heavily disputed—historians note Soviet POW camps for Germans were far more brutal than this relatively sanitized romance suggests.
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