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      • Ostensibly, it's a thriller, but it doesn't have much in the way of thrills. It also includes a passionate romance, but isn't particularly sexy. It does, however, have excellent performances from the three leads, a minimalism that is sort of intriguing, and a couple of unforeseen twists at the end that make things interesting.
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  2. When Thomas, a penniless war veteran, provides aid to business entrepreneur Ali, a drunken driver who has crashed his car, he is offered a job by way of thanks. Thomas soon finds himself immersed...

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      A taut, German-made thriller, Jerichow adds a bit of...

  3. Jun 24, 2009 · This is the setup for Christian Petzold’s “Jerichow,” named for the East German locale. Petzold may ring a bell for you from last year’s weirdly intriguing thriller “Yella,” about a woman on the lam from an abusive husband and hoping to embezzle a fortune in her new job.

  4. A taut, German-made thriller, Jerichow adds a bit of European xenophobia to the pulp traditions of passion and betrayal. Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 6, 2009

  5. German writer-director Christian Petzold tells a story of a fateful encounter trapped in a love triangle. Thomas, Laura, and her husband Ali quickly become enmeshed in a three-way relationship rich with desire, pressure, and betrayal.

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  6. May 14, 2009 · “Jerichow,” a compact and somber movie by the German director Christian Petzold, proves that, in film as in engineering, the triangle is the strongest and most efficient structural principle.

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  7. Jerichow is a 2008 German drama film written and directed by Christian Petzold. [1] It is loosely inspired by the 1934 American novel The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain. [2]

  8. This is an expertly constructed thrillerbasically a love triangle in which a down-on-his-luck former soldier (Frmann) falls for the wife (Hoss) of his Turkish employer (Szer)—that never...

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