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The Democratic Terrorist

1992 · 96 min Thriller Action
6.6 / 10 · TMDB

The West German security police, Verfassungsschutz, need help to infiltrate a group connected to the Rote Arme Fraktion. The Swedish James Bond, Carl Hamilton, goes to Hamburg, pretending to be a Swedish officer, thrown out of the country after having been exposed as an East German spy. He gets in contact with the terrorists and joins them. Together they are planning to strike against the CIA headquarters in Stockholm.

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📋 Film Details

Original Title Den demokratiske terroristen
Year 1992
Country Sweden, Germany
Genre Thriller, Action
Director Per Berglund
Runtime 96 min.
Rating TMDB: 6.6/10 (23 votes)

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The film constructs a taut narrative, relying on the chilly aesthetics of a Nordic thriller and the political context of the post-Cold War era. It explores the fragile line between state protection and the methods of those it pursues, using the agent as a conduit into a world of ideological fanaticism.

Those who tire of simplistic action will find a grim exploration of loyalty as a commodity and moral compromise as survival. What lingers after the credits is a sense of uneasy ambiguity about the machinery of security. — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: Per Berglund

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