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The Operative
Info about the broadcasting of the movie at Berlinale at 10-th and 11-th of February:
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And Martin will be there as well, so it seems:
Berliners, a chance for you! 
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Nice!
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Ouch! There´s a review of the Operative in German newspapers, right off from Berlinale and the reviewer is quite harsh to it, describing it as a flop.
The spy movies are mostly jingoistic nonsense anyway, but still, I hoped for more from this one. What a pity!
On the other hand, the movie carries an anti-Iranian message (so popular in West now to crap on that country), so maybe it´s good it flopped.... 
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How can you describe something as a flop?
Surely the cinema numbers prove it one way or another?
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So maybe not a "flop", but a bad movie? All in all, the reviewer didn´t like it.
Of course, the attendance in cinemas can prove the reviewer wrong - we´ll see.
Some pics from Berlinale premiere:
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I cannot live without brainwork. What else is there to live for? Stand at the window there. Was there ever such a dreary, dismal, unprofitable world? See how the yellow fog swirls down the street and drifts across the dun-coloured houses. What could be more hopelessly prosaic and material? What is the use of having powers, Doctor, when one has no field upon which to exert them?
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And a few from the Berlinale press conference:
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Some more of them too:
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Nice.
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More Berlinale:
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I cannot live without brainwork. What else is there to live for? Stand at the window there. Was there ever such a dreary, dismal, unprofitable world? See how the yellow fog swirls down the street and drifts across the dun-coloured houses. What could be more hopelessly prosaic and material? What is the use of having powers, Doctor, when one has no field upon which to exert them?
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Some stills from The Operative:
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I cannot live without brainwork. What else is there to live for? Stand at the window there. Was there ever such a dreary, dismal, unprofitable world? See how the yellow fog swirls down the street and drifts across the dun-coloured houses. What could be more hopelessly prosaic and material? What is the use of having powers, Doctor, when one has no field upon which to exert them?
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Re: The Operative
Hate the beard, but he always gives good face...
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