Joy Division

2006
1h 45m

IMDb RATING

6.0/10

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Drama War

A teen orphan fights against the Red Army and in the aftermath of World War II is "adopted" by a Soviet commissar. Years later, during the Cold War, he is a KGB agent and is sent to London, ... Read allA teen orphan fights against the Red Army and in the aftermath of World War II is "adopted" by a Soviet commissar. Years later, during the Cold War, he is a KGB agent and is sent to London, where he ends up questioning his life.A teen orphan fights against the Red Army and in the aftermath of World War II is "adopted" by a Soviet commissar. Years later, during the Cold War, he is a KGB agent and is sent to London, where he ends up questioning his life.

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IMDb RATING

6.0/10

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Krivosheyev: [Krivosheyev briefs Thomas on former Nazi Steiner] ... but it was discovered that he was an informer for the British Secret Police.

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6/10

Cruelties of War

In 1944, the fourteen years old teenager Thomas (Tom Schilling) is convoked to fight in the German Army. He survives, but his town is destroyed, his family dies in a bombing and his sweetheart Melanie (Bernadette Heerwagen) is raped and murdered by the Russian Army. A Commissar brings the orphan Thomas to Soviet Union, and he is sent to the military school. Years later, Thomas (Ed Stoppard) becomes an agent of KGB and in 1962, during the Cold War, he is assigned to work in London. Living with ghosts from the past in constant fear and paranoia, he meets the black Londoner Yvonne (Michelle Gayle), who gives him the strength of joy.

"Joy Division" is a movie with an engaging and very cruel drama of war, and a confused spy story in times of Cold War. If the story was limited to the impressive situation of the survivors of the Russian invasion, it would be excellent. But the part of espionage never works and is a complete mess. My vote is six.

Title (Brazil): "Regras da Guerra" ("Rules of the War")