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Funeral in Berlin (1966)

Thriller | 102 minutes
3,18 99 votes

Genre: Thriller / Drama

Duration: 102 minuten

Country: United Kingdom / United States

Directed by: Guy Hamilton

Stars: Michael Caine, Paul Hubschmid and Oskar Homolka

IMDb score: 6,8 (8.175)

Releasedate: 22 December 1966

Funeral in Berlin plot

"It was going to be a lovely funeral. Harry ‘Ipcress File’ Palmer just hoped it wouldn’t be his …"

Second part of the Harry Palmer series. A Russian colonel in Berlin declares that he wants to defect. British spy Harry Palmer is sent to arrange his escape to the other side of the Berlin Wall, but once he arrives in Berlin, the case turns out to be more complicated than it first appeared.

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scorsese

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Nice film in which a British spy is ordered to help a Russian colonel defect. Although the humor is sometimes a bit thicker, the tone is almost the same compared to the first part. A fairly complicated plot that did not manage to captivate me the whole time. Great location work in the divided Berlin of the mid-1960s.

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Filmkriebel

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Lots of unexpected twists in this spy film. Sometimes a bit too far-fetched but fun to follow and really not that complicated if you just keep your mind on it. A British agent, Harry Palmer, is sent to East Berlin to help a Russian general defect to the West, but then it turns out that the whole thing is actually about something else. A young Caine plays the shrewd and cunning spy. Those who like twisty spy films will have plenty of fun with this, for sure.

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Lovelyboy

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Classic Sunday brought this Funeral in Berlin with the character Harry Palmer already known from The Ipcress File and apparently not the last film in which this character created by Len Deighton appears. The Ipcress File scored a more than decent pass, long live MovieMeter because to be honest I don't know a damn thing about it anymore, and of course the question was how this Funeral in Berlin would be received and that turned out to be a lot less.

Harry is not very subtly harnessed to the cart called the defection of a Russian officer and soon we see images of post-war Berlin with wastelands, fresh new buildings but also sad gray monsters of buildings that are black with misery. Of course nothing is what it seems, no one can be trusted and the simple assignment seems to have quite a few catches. Caine is dry as always, Eva Renzi is of course nice for the view and Homolka smears away as the wrong Russian Colonel.

However, it is all just not right with this Funeral in Berlin which is actually just too slow, say without pace, the tension is regularly lacking and the plot twists are very ad hoc and almost unbelievable. In other words, it all did not really get to me. The film does contain a nice picture of the times and typical British humor, so as far as I am concerned, not a fail but a steady three stars.

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