The will-they-won’t-they succeed in carrying out the poisoning plot makes for pretty flat drama, and for a film about people who have suffered so much, this really fails to make us care about the characters.
Plan A
Germany, Israel · 2021
1h 49m
Director Yoav Paz, Doron Paz
Starring August Diehl, Sylvia Hoeks, Michael Aloni, Nikolai Kinski
Genre Thriller, Drama
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In 1945, a group of Jewish holocaust survivors planned to poison the water system in Germany. The film tells the dangerous and bold secret-operation which was called Plan A.
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The film’s inherent emotional power is undermined by the visual and narrative murkiness of its storytelling, including a gotcha twist at the end that has nowhere near the weight of the themes it's trying to explore.
The New York Times by Nicolas Rapold
Plan A never quite rises to the challenge posed by this remarkable chapter in history.
Plan A starts with promise, and features that rare novel take on The Holocaust as a subject. But the fascinating history isn’t truly given its due, the suspense never has a chance to build and the characters and the cast playing them don’t make that leap from “competent” to compelling.”
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