Wholesome psychological thriller with great Ian McKellen and Helen Mirren but containing a few bloopers. The action is set in 2003 when the characters should be in their mid-seventies, not in the late eighties as now, but the cars in the movie are modern. A boy, future McKellen character, who grew up in Nazi Germany, i.e. without much contact with English speakers, learnt English so flawlessly, including the accent that he can credibly impersonate an Englishman after the war. The writers could have easily made English counterintelligence officer a Dutchman or a Czech. Finally, fifteen-year old boy--before the sexual revolution--without much experience, raped a girl in a house full of people. To expose him as a complete scum it would be more believable if he extorted sex for not promising to report her parents to the Gestapo and then betraying them all the same.
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