Police State Blues


Director and screen play adaptor of his own literary work Marc Dugain has succeeded in creating a movie which is quite gripping, even though there is little typical cinema action. The atmosphere of dread pervading the Stalinist regime is cleverly and successfully transmitted to the audience, though clearly the film was made on a limited budget.

Marina Hands is outstanding and really carries the picture IMO, in her role as the resourceful and enigmatically gifted doctor, Anna. André Dussollier is also very convincing as the fearsome, but physically frail dictator Stalin, who manages to directly and unapologetically intertwine himself into Anna's life, much to the cost of all who she loves.

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