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Kerry Fox, Anamaria Marinca, Stephen Dillane, Rolf Lassgard, Alexander Fehling ...( see more  see more... ) , Tarik Filipovic , Kresimir Mikic

Taking the atrocities of the Bosnian wars as its point of inquiry, Hans-Christian Schmid's film weighs the legacy of the past against the promise of the future and dramatizes, through the legal procee...( read more  read more... )dings on display, the process by which a balance may be struck between the two. "I'm not interested in politics," says Hannah Maynard (Kerry Fox), the no-bullshit UN prosecutor charged with bringing alleged war criminal Goran Duric (Drazen Kuhn) to justice, but just about everyone else around her seems to be. As she builds her case against Duric, she has to contend with both the wheeling-and-dealing of her own organization and the threatening power structure of the former Yugoslavia, where she goes to dig for evidence and where she finds that Duric is something like a national Serbian hero. While poking around, she stumbles on a fresh witness, Mira (Anamaria Marinca).

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Unrated, 1 hr. 50 min.

Directed by: Hans-Christian Schmid

Release Date: October 30, 2009

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  • her69eyes
    October 31, 2009
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    With Radovan Karadzic, the Bosnian Serb leader accused of war crimes against Bosnian Muslims, once again a central figure in world news, German-born Hans-Christian Schmid's ("Requiem") "Storm" finds itself a limited release with distribution by Film Movement. The film is a topica...( read more)l political thriller, a sterile work taking place in courtrooms with enough expository dialogue to submit even the dullest of procedural aficionados.

    Hannah Maynard (Kerry Fox) is a prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal at the Hague. She's become involved with what seems to be an easy trial - the case of Goran Duric (Drazen Kuhn), a Yugoslavian general accused of war crimes against Bosnian Muslim civilians. After losing her key witness to suicide, however, she must track down his emotionally-scarred sister, Mira (Anamaria Marinca), to testify for her case.

    "Storm" is successful as a hyper-realistic look at the justice system, but it fails in painting a dramatically satisfying narrative. The direction is far from abrasive - almost invisible, in fact - and while that may be a compliment to some films, it serves here as another uninspired detriment to a film that has an almost obsessive tendency to remain accurate. So much must be explained in the dull legal proceedings that, when the film begins to desperately seek narrative momentum through it's character development, it feels rushed and rather typical.

    Although this isn't exactly exciting filmmaking, the performances are certainly worth commending. Anamaria Marinca, who was so good in "4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days", is terrific as the traumatized, yet remarkably brave woman working under constant threat. Kerry Fox is an atypical lead, a woman drawn so unglamorously that she finds her own level of sexiness through her professional prowess and intellect. Despite the performers, however, the lifeless legal speak makes for barely serviceable entertainment. The film is interesting sporadically, but it's mostly a fight to stay awake.

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