Cate has a youthful look and is always carded when ordering a drink. Readers will tip their cap to Hannon for finding a realistic way to convince them that this could happen. This novel opens with thirty-three-year-old detective Cate Reilly asked to go undercover as a seventeen-year-old high school student. For me, the classic film, “North by Northwest,” had these elements, a classic romantic psychological suspense with action.”
Mine has peaks of action, but also character development where I take readers into the heads of my characters to understand the motivations and what drives them. My books have action and danger but not the constant type as in an action-adventure story. I tend more to Hitchcock than James Bond. Hannon stated, “My novels have a heavy component of psychological suspense. Readers will always find in her books clever twists, enticing dialogue, likeable and realistic characters, a tinge of romance, and riveting plotlines. Nevertheless, “Labyrinth of Lies” is an eye-opening story about the importance of seeking the truth - even when it’s complicated, ugly and buried beneath years of secrecy and deceit.Labyrinth of Lies by Irene Hannon shows why she is the master of romantic suspense. The movie also has a tendency toward cliches, whether it’s Johann’s fledgling relationship with that pretty traffic violator or the way he turns to alcohol in his misery, stumbling through the streets of Frankfurt late at night asking every passerby, “Were you a Nazi?” That being said, sometimes it works, as when Johann is interviewing Holocaust survivors and, rather than hear so many devastating accounts, we only see their pained expressions as the music plays. Nearly every scene is marred by an occasionally maudlin score by Sebastian Pille and Niki Reiser. The story, written by Ricciarelli, Elisabeth Bartel and Amelie Syberberg, is certainly worthy, but the movie’s methods aren’t always sound. “Labyrinth of Lies,” Germany’s submission for the Academy Awards, is the directorial debut of Giulio Ricciarelli. man claiming he was merely following orders. After hearing so many sickening stories, he sees everyone as a potential suspect - another former S.S. The more he learns, the more obsessed he becomes with getting justice. And the entire system is controlled by a government filled with former Nazi party members.īut Johann won’t be dissuaded. His associates were either Nazis themselves or they’d prefer to remain willfully ignorant of the barbarity. The statute of limitations has run out for Nazi crimes, with the exception of murder. In the film, Johann is blocked at every turn. Johann - who starts asking questions after hearing Simon’s story - is a fictional composite of three prosecutors who worked for attorney general Fritz Bauer (played by Gert Voss) to bring Nazis to justice during the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials of the 1960s. It seems stranger than fiction that such crimes against humanity could be systematically buried, but the movie is based on a true story. In postwar Germany, young people were shielded from the atrocities carried out by their parents, neighbors and bosses. Wasn’t Auschwitz a “protective custody camp?” he asks Thomas.
But he can’t quite grasp the significance of the situation. While other prosecutors turn away from the case, Johann, desperate for a meaty assignment, is intrigued. That same day, journalist Thomas Gnielka (André Szymanski) storms into the prosecutor’s office with Simon (Johannes Krisch), an Auschwitz survivor who has recognized a neighborhood teacher as a brutal S.S. The scrupulous Johann (Alexander Fehling) seems a little naive, but he won’t be for long. But the prosecutor isn’t hearing it: The law’s the law, he reasons, and criminals must suffer the consequences.
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The lady can’t pay the full fine, so the judge suggests reducing the penalty. The German film “Labyrinth of Lies” opens in 1958 as a young prosecutor is throwing the book at a woman who committed a traffic violation.
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