The Operative at the Berlin film festival : Diane Kruger as a Mossad agent in Tehran News

The beautiful death is like a snap of the finger. He comes suddenly and unexpectedly. At least in theory. In practice, it is disgusting. Rachel sneaks up behind and rams the night guard for a syringe in the neck. He jumps up, staggers, gasps for air and falls to the ground. She is kneeling down to the dying man and touched his face, it looks as if she wanted to apologize to him.

A few days before, she had stood in his cubbyhole, he gave her one of his very strong cigarettes, you talked about his brother, who would soon die. Better, they found, was to die as quickly as a Snap. The scene takes place in a Tehran the electronics company. Rachel kills the night watchman, because he has seen you, after you had copied computer files. She works for the Israeli secret service.

eagle-always manages to provide Suspense

Diane Kruger is, as Rachel is the Star of the spy Thriller "The Operative", runs out of competition in competition. You can, you know, with their dark-colored hair, and for a long time, it remains unclear on which side of the heroine, who is not Israeli, is really. It's fitting that the images of the film, the Israeli Director Yuval Adler has staged a gray seems to be the veil, everything appears nebulous, only towards the end the sun is shining.

At the beginning of Rachel calls her management agent while Jogging, played by Martin Freeman, and says: "My father is dead." On the one hand, that's true, the father is dead. On the other hand, it is in the set the Code that you want to get off. Since it is already in a year lost. It will follow, genre, art panels fully nested.

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"This is a war, innocent people", so the management agent Rachel tries to explain to die in what she is walking into. The language teacher, whose Mossad career in Leipzig starts, has fallen in love with Farhad (Cas Anvar), it was set in Tehran. He is trying to procure the technology for the nuclear program of the Mullahs.

It is talking a little too much in this Film, but eagle manages to provide Suspense. Your first night in Tehran, Rachel spends in a claustrophobic hotel room. She smuggled bombs on the Turkish-Iranian border, must hide in the cargo area of a jeep and is almost raped. And she gets in the Elevator of a hotel in which three people are shot and killed. An irritating Moment, Diane Kruger wears blonde hair.

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