The Statement

The Statement

2003 · 120 min · EN · 5.7 (84 votes)
Dir. Norman Jewison · Starring Michael Caine, Tilda Swinton, Jeremy Northam, Alan Bates, Charlotte Rampling, John Neville · Music Normand Corbeil

“At the end of World War II, many of those involved in war crimes were prosecuted. Some got away. Until now.”

DramaThriller

An ambitious Judge and an exacting Colonel re-open the sixty-year-old case of Pierre Brossard, an escaped Nazi collaborator accused of murdering seven Jews. Now an old man living a sheltered life within the Catholic Church, Brossard is also being trailed by mysterious hit men, determined to kill him before he's arrested.

VIBE

A chillingly realistic portrayal of moral compromise and the weight of past actions. It feels like a slow-burn descent into the grim realities of collaboration, where every decision carries a heavy consequence.

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