Sentences with phrase «secret policemen»

The swish of cars crossing the bridge and the susurrations of secret policemen come to her through the darkness.

A little more than a year later, I remembered those people and their silent tears as I wandered round a Moscow at last liberated from the Communist tyranny that had demanded the allegiance of everyone since 1917, a Moscow from which the tanks, defeated mainly by popular scorn for a rotten, drunken, washed - up junta of secret policemen and hacks, had withdrawn.

Nor, it seems, has anyone noticed the withdrawal of Moscow's power from 700,000 square miles of territory which it once held down with boots and tanks and secret policemen.

And Sudeikin wasn't your usual run of secret policeman.

The tale of an East German secret policeman (Ulrich Muhe, who would pass away six months after this riveting turn) who spends the majority of the film listening in on the lives of an arty couple (Sebastian Koch and Martina Gedeck), a playwright and actress suspected of harboring Western sympathies, really gets under your skin.

And the story is perfectly set up: we meet Leo Demidov (Tom Hardy), a war hero turned secret policeman in -LSB-...]

That idea works fine as subtext, but the film increasingly has characters voice that metaphor aloud to audiences, driving home a point that already felt perfectly clear — all while Lorraine plumbs deeper and deeper into a tangle of lies and fractured alliances that also include the French agent Delphine (Sofia Boutella), the German secret policeman Spyglass (Eddie Marsan), and a hulking KGB enforcer called Aleksander (Roland Møller).

Both believe that Brano Sev, their enigmatic superior and himself a career secret policeman, is keeping them in the dark both about the details of the case and all its players and about the true motives of their investigation, but they can't figure out why.

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Si vis pacem para bellum (i.e. if you want peace, prepare for war), at least an additional 200,000 policemen, 50,000 soldiers and 15,000 men of the secret police must be recruited in the next few months if the Federal Government is serious about overcoming the present security challenges.

And then a policeman knocks on her door, revealing a secret that changes the world as she knows it.