1966 · thriller · spy
Funeral in Berlin (1966)
Directed by Guy Hamilton1h 42m1966
Colonel Stok, a Soviet intelligence officer responsible for security at the Berlin Wall, appears to want to defect but the evidence is contradictory. Stok wants the British to handle his defection and asks for one of their agents, Harry Palmer, to smuggle him out of East Germany.
Our read: Funeral in Berlin (1966) (1966) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded thriller · spy entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured thriller / spy, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- intense
- bleak
- cold
- twisty
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