查尔斯(安德烈·杜索里埃 André Dussollier 饰)曾是一位精明强干备受尊重的警官,如今,慢慢老去的他不得不提前开始他的退休生活,因为他被查出了患有阿兹海默症。就这样,查尔斯来到了一家专门针对阿兹海默症患者开放的疗养院生活,这里规律而又宁静的日子让查尔斯渐渐开始觉得一切并没有他想象的那么糟糕。
然而,噩梦还是开始了。在疗养院中接二连三的发生了患者死亡的意外,多年来浸淫在警队中的查尔斯敏感的察觉到一切都不是巧合,是有一个邪恶的人躲在幕后,亲手策划了这些死亡。查尔斯独自展开了对事件的调查,就在他里真相越来越近的同时,危险也离他越来越近。
Set in Prague in 1953, this suspenseful crime drama follows honest police captain Hakl (Trojan) and his investigation of a seemingly mundane robbery at a goldsmith’s shop. In a fraught political climate, this incident is seized on by the Communist authorities, who require a smokescreen for their own, far grander, deception.
On the orders of State Security, Hakl’s investigation is taken over by Major Zenke (Sebastian Koch, The Lives of Others), an East German specialist, who has been told to “prove” that the gold was stolen by the Jewish community to finance Zionist terrorism. But the experienced Hakl’s instincts puts him on the path of an altogether different story. Can one just man stand up to the forces of an increasingly oppressive state? The shadow of the past looms over all involved, and this can make a culprit of a victim and a hero of a culprit. Somber and atmospheric, this is a moving and compelling study of the Stalinist era.