Rent Despite the Falling Snow (2016)
3.0 of 5 from 93 ratings
1h 33min
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- Synopsis:
- In 1950's Moscow, communist Katya (Rebecca Ferguson) secretly spies for the Americans in the Cold War arms race. When she lands her biggest assignment, stealing secrets from rising government star Alexander (Charles Dance), the last thing she expects is to fall in love with him. When Alexander unwittingly closes the net around his own wife, Katya decides to make the ultimate sacrifice to protect him - a sacrifice that Alexander only uncovers thirty years later.
- Actors:
- Rebecca Ferguson, Charles Dance, Antje Traue, Thure Lindhardt, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Anthony Head, Amy Nuttall, Sam Reid, Ben Batt, Anne Kidd, Milos Timotijevic, Branislav Tomasevic, Ana Sofrenovic, Peter J. Chaffey, Tamara Krcunovic, Mark Jax, Imogen Daines, Marina Vodenicar, Marko Janjic, Slavisa Ivanovic
- Directors:
- Shamim Sarif
- Producers:
- Hanan Kattan
- Writers:
- Shamim Sarif
- Studio:
- Altitude
- Genres:
- Drama, Romance, Thrillers
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Reviews (1) of Despite the Falling Snow
So-so romance partly set in Russia in the cold war - Despite the Falling Snow review by PV
I found this film irritating and think I know why - it is a romance padded out to try and pretend to be something more, with a confusing flashback spy story. It seems the film's writers and director is also its author, a rather privileged south Asian British woman helped by her same sex spouse who is also a film producer, Hmmm. Always rings alarm bells when the screenwriter and director also wrote the novel...
Some interesting bits but a rather cartoon character version of life in the USSR with clunky dialogue an a wafer thin plot.
It was so-so but John Le Carre or Fred Forsyth this ain't. Watch THE AMERICANS DVD box set instead or a film based on real cold war thrillers.
It is a mills and boon romantic story really. 3 stars max. Some nice falling snow...
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