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Kawasaki's Rose

Play trailer Poster for Kawasaki's Rose 2009,  1h 40m,  Drama Play Trailer Watchlist
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A famed dissident is accused of collaborating with the government by turning a friend in.

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Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times Oct 26, 2011
4/5
This intricate, powerful, unsettling film brings us into a world of profound moral complexities where facile judgments must be suspended because even the best people can become complicit in evil. Go to Full Review
Jesse Cataldo Slant Magazine Dec 1, 2010
2.5/4
The first film to confront the ghosts of government collaboration in communist Czechoslovakia may be new for Czechs, but otherwise it's a familiar invocation of a problematically buried past. Go to Full Review
A.O. Scott New York Times Nov 24, 2010
4/4
The point of this thoughtful, moving film is that the motives and actions that define human ethics are never simple and that the Communist regime was especially adept at exploiting this complexity for its own ends. Go to Full Review
Joseph Proimakis Movies for the Masses Mar 1, 2011
3/5
full review at Movies for the Masses Go to Full Review
Leslie Stonebraker New York Press Feb 25, 2011
As an exercise in cultural memory, Kawasaki's Rose is cathartic. Go to Full Review
Simon Miraudo Quickflix Jan 23, 2011
2/5
I haven't seen so much information so lazily and clunkily delivered since the finale of the 2007 French film Tell No One. It doesn't matter if you've not seen it; just know that it should have really been called: Tell Everyone. Everything. Ever. Go to Full Review
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Jan Hrebejk

Director

Lenka Vlasakova

Lucie

Martin Huba

Pavel

Daniela Kolárová

Jana

Anna Simonova

Bára

Petra Hrebícková

Radka

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Movie Info

Synopsis A famed dissident is accused of collaborating with the government by turning a friend in.
Director
Jan Hrebejk
Producer
Rudolf Biermann, Tomás Hoffman
Screenwriter
Petr Jarchovský
Genre
Drama
Original Language
Czech
Runtime
1h 40m
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