Torn Curtain
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At the international physics congress in Copenhagen, the world-famous nuclear physicist Michael Armstrong (Paul Newman) surprises his fiancée and assistant Sarah Sherman (Julie Andrews) by suddenly having to leave. Sarah follows him and is horrified to discover that Michael has defected to East Berlin. What she doesn't suspect is that there are other secrets.
After the previous failure of MARNIE, Hitchcock was given Paul Newman and Julie Andrews by the studio that had given him the money to make the film, although he did not want to work with method actor Paul Newman in particular.
"Thrilling spy story [...] As always, Hitchcock dissolves the factual into suspense. Politically therefore naive and implausible, but cinematically brilliant. Rating: [...] very good" (Lexikon Filme im Fernsehen)
"Swiftly staged suspense film [...]. An overly broad and gory murder somewhat disturbs the enjoyment of the director's ideas. Hitchcock fans over sixteen will get their money's worth for two hour...
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This film is not shown in our current program
Our program for the cinema week starting on Thursday will be published each Monday afternoon