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...brief glimpses of General Radek (Jurgen Prochnow) plunge us back into the Cold War: As he strides across the prison yard in highly decorated military uniform, he looks the epitome of a maniacal tyrant. But it's Oldman's performance as Korshunov that gives the film its tension and intensity, adding layers to his character's coolly calculating role with outbursts of frightening patriotic zeal for "Mother Russia." There is also a revealing moment when Korshunov gently kisses Alice on the forehead and strokes back her hair from her tear-stained face, suggesting that beneath the seemingly cold-blooded terrorist...
Technically, Palcy is most impressive during the hazy, back-lit courtroom scene midway through the film. Moving effortlessly from angle to angle she builds a brilliant encounter between Brando and Jurgen Prochnow, who plays Captain Stolz of the secret police. Palcy delivers a particularly effective shot of Brando after the judge announces his verdict. While commotion breaks out around the defeated lawyer, he sits immobile, quietly mumbling "fuck" over and over again...
Petersen's success in drawing the viewer into the characters' physical setting creates a sense of empathy for their mental anguish even if they are somewhat caricatured. The heroically low-keyed captain (Jurgen Prochnow) combines the steely bright blue eyes of an American astronaut with the scruffy beard and weathered skin of an old salt and leads a crew including an ever-dependable lieutenant, a neophyte war correspondent and more than one boy in love...
...Boot takes another plunge into the black pool of memory and finds-surprise!-flinty nobility. Actually, no surprise for anyone who feasted on the submarine movies of the 1950s. Here is the dogged captain (Jürgen Prochnow), navigating g the straits of political bureaucracy ""and a bungling high command. Here is the wild-eyed wraith of the engine room (Erwin Leder), who "cracks" during one crisis, then performs heroically in the next. Here are the hide-and-seek battles, the claustrophobic tensions, the respect for a valiant enemy. As with David, the novelty here is getting the inside German...
...contributed their ideas on the economy are directly quoted, but their consensus is reflected. Those interviewed form an impressive roster of U.S. business: Among bankers, Chase Manhattan President David Rockefeller, Bank of America Vice Chairman Rudolph Peterson, Chicago First National's President Herbert Prochnow, Atlanta First National's Chairman James Robinson...