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Director: John Power
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From Time Out Film Guide
Drinkwater's world is upended when her elderly father, Von Sydow, is identified as a concentration camp functionary by Holocaust survivor Blake. The difficult material needed firmer handling than it gets here, however, for the film fudges the central issue of Von Sydow's culpability and turns the victim of injustice into a batty neurotic scheming for revenge. (See also Costa-Gavras' Music Box, 1989.Author: TJ
Cast & crew
Director: John Power
Producer: Damien Parer, Tony Cavanaugh, Paul Barron
Cast: Max von Sydow, Carole Drinkwater, Julia Blake, Steve Jacobs, Tim Robertson full cast
Duration: 100 mins
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