Pay close attention and don't even munch on popcorn and nuts while viewing this movie. If you miss any of the dialog you'll miss much of the sense of the plot and even worse, the charming human interaction especially among the characters played by actors Sautoy, Stamp and Sachs.
It is inappropriately titled for cinema release though because there are practically no scenes of killings which were only briefly mentioned several times. The fade outs at crucial moments clued me on to the fact that it is a TV production. All that was lacking would have been the legend: "Place advertisement here."
The plot revolves about a couple of boxes stolen by an "enterprising" WWII RAF pilot thought to contain treasure of some kind. We are led to believe for a while that it is Nazi loot, even improbably, part of the Tsar's crown jewels. What it really was were documents revealing that top Soviet Red Army general staff were negotiating with Hitler during the war to overthrow Stalin and make Russia a member of the Axis Powers. That would have led to the defeat of the West. That, to my mind, was even more improbable than the yarn about the Tsar's crown jewels.
It is inappropriately titled for cinema release though because there are practically no scenes of killings which were only briefly mentioned several times. The fade outs at crucial moments clued me on to the fact that it is a TV production. All that was lacking would have been the legend: "Place advertisement here."
The plot revolves about a couple of boxes stolen by an "enterprising" WWII RAF pilot thought to contain treasure of some kind. We are led to believe for a while that it is Nazi loot, even improbably, part of the Tsar's crown jewels. What it really was were documents revealing that top Soviet Red Army general staff were negotiating with Hitler during the war to overthrow Stalin and make Russia a member of the Axis Powers. That would have led to the defeat of the West. That, to my mind, was even more improbable than the yarn about the Tsar's crown jewels.