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Curveball

2020

Johannes Naber

Virginia Kull, Dar Salim, Thorsten Merten, Sebastian Blomberg ...

5.8

88

Thriller. Comedy Although he already has searched Iraq unsuccessfully for weapons of mass destruction as a member of a UN mission, German bio-weapons expert Arndt Wolf is still obsessed with the idea that Saddam Hussein is hiding something. Nobody around him is interested in this topic any more. This changes abruptly when an Iraqi asylum seeker claims to have been involved in the manufacture of biological weapons. The German Federal Intelligence Service ... [+]

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Wendy Ide Screendaily	"It’s a slick and frequently very amusing film about a profoundly dispiriting period of history. The film’s main asset is its sharp screenplay"	POS
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	"Naber and co-writer Oliver Keidel struggle to find the right tone. They’ve based their screenplay in extensive research, which is apparent in the absurdist details they choose to include, although the movie stumbles often into slapstick"	NEU
	Jan Lumholdt Cineuropa	"As curveballs go, this one’s exceptionally bent."	POS

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