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Storm

2009 · 1h 43m · N/A Drama
Directed by Hans-Christian Schmid

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Overview

Hannah Maynard, a prosecutor of Hague's Tribunal for war crimes in former Yugoslavia, charges a Serbian commander for killing Bosniaks. However, her main witness might be lying, so the court sends a team to Bosnia to investigate.

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82%
Tomatometer
Fresh

Storm is harrowing, provocative and deeply probing yet quite involving.

Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times
Fresh

A political thriller with real-world resonance.

Stephen Holden, New York Times
Fresh

In this taut drama about the trial of a Bosnian Serb general from German director and co-writer Hans Christian Schmid, we see how justice can be subverted by interests as banal as international bureaucracy, despite the best intentions...

Billy Heller, New York Post
Fresh

It may sound like a simple lawyer-fights-for-righteousness tale, but this ostensible thriller is really an examination of two courageous female protagonists, both of whom find defeat at the intersection of the personal and the political.

Andrew Grant, Time Out New York
Rotten

The writing by director Hans-Christian Schmid and Bernd Lange is more stilted and righteous than even the U.N. environs, with its humanity-embracing procedural-speak, calls for.

Nicolas Rapold, Village Voice

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