2021 · thriller · crime · mystery
Operation Hyacinth
Directed by Piotr Domalewski1h 46m2021
Not satisfied with the result of a murder investigation in Warsaw's gay community, an officer in 1980s communist Poland resolves to uncover the truth.
Our read: Operation Hyacinth (2021) reads as a heavy, steady, grounded thriller · crime · mystery entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, steady, measured thriller / crime, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
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