Acting performance:
Steve Buscemi: The role of the villain looks very convincing. As one of the film’s characters put it, “He’s funny on his own.” So it seems to me that the whole film he was a funny trickster, cunning. Overall, he played well. I liked it, as in all of his works, and it looked convincing. And then there was also, so to speak, a historical film, so improvisation was not a place here.
Peter Stormare: I honestly didn't like it. Until now, the ideal of his acting for me remains the Russian cosmonaut Andropov and the film “Armageddon”. He doesn't even fit in here. Of course, I understand that he had such a silent role, but still, no emotions, you can even say any average actor in his place, he would have played no worse.
I wanted to say a few words about the film: this whole atmosphere, when the screen is snow, winter, light fog, it gives a flavor to the film, which makes it look much more interesting. If it were to take place in the summer, the film would lose its flavor of this atmosphere.
There is almost nothing to say about the script, because this film is based on real events, and here it was impossible to deviate from reality. I think if it was just a film and not a story, I think the writers would have added something that would have given the film even more interest, and a twisted plot, which, unfortunately, was not there.
As a result, for a good game Buscemi, for no game Stormare, for a good script, which is also made on real events, for all this:
8 out of 10
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