An Auction House Is Selling the Bar From Hilter’s Yacht. Rebecca Ferguson, so vibrant in Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation, pulls disappointing double duty in an old-fashioned, espionage-tinged romance that might be more at home on ITV3 than the big screen. The movie has a surface similarity to “Allied,” last year’s Brad Pitt-Marion Cotillard World War II thriller, because it’s yet another story of an agent who marries one of the enemy to advance her cause. It's a taut and talky film, nicely played by all concerned. Half the film follows Katya and Sasha’s courtship in Moscow in 1960 and ’61, culminating in the fateful moment when Sasha defects to the United States, leaving Katya tragically behind. Our best wishes for a productive day. She strikes up a relationship with rising politician Alexander (Sam Reid) so that she can pass along his secrets, but inevitably heart starts competing with head when she falls in love with him. It's the sort of film best enjoyed at home on a rainy afternoon, when the Cold War might inspire some cosy nostalgia. Yet it certainly shows off what a versatile actress Ferguson is. The new puzzles website is now live - sign up now and enjoy a 7-day free trial! In Cold War Moscow, a female spy steals secrets from an idealistic politician - … Russia, as a subject, has been coming up in the world of entertainment (it started with the launch of “The Americans” on FX four years ago), and one could now easily envision Russia becoming a vast new landscape of 21st-century dramatic interface. An old school romantic thriller that lacks the subtleties and sophistication of recent spy storytelling, be it on the big screen (Bridge Of Spies) or small (The Night Manager). In Cold War Moscow, spy Katya (Rebecca Ferguson) is assigned to get close to rising politician Alexander (Sam Reid) in order to prise secrets from him. But “Despite the Falling Snow” is one of those movies in which the cross-cutting keeps destroying all mood and momentum — it feels more like channel-surfing. Katya has been assigned by Misha (Oliver Jackson-Cohen), the swarthy leader of her cell, to get romantically involved with Sasha. Ferguson, in a short blondish wig, plays the niece, too, a gambit that seems like it should mean something but doesn’t. Over the stretch of a 350-page novel (by writer-director Shamim Sarif), the relationships and revelations have time to breathe and reverberate. As Lauren, she’s perky and liberated and slightly bratty, especially when she comes on to a high-ranking Russian journalist (Antje Traue). Yet here’s one case where the tone deaf-ness is far from incidental. 710067). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Despite_the_Falling_Snow_(film) The old Cold War meets the new Cold War. As Lauren, she’s perky and liberated and slightly bratty, especially when she comes on to a high-ranking Russian journalist (Antje Traue). A spy working for the US in 1950s Moscow falls in love with a politician she is assigned to steal secrets from. Thirty years later, Alexander’s niece Lauren (Ferguson) investigates what happened to her missing aunt. VAT no 918 5617 01, Bauer Consumer Media Ltd are authorised and regulated by the FCA(Ref No. Romantic drama, starring Rebecca Ferguson and Sam Reid. The agent, in this case, is Katya Krinkova (played by the vibrant Swedish actress Rebecca Ferguson), a secret dissident in Soviet Russia whose parents were killed by Stalin’s goons when she was just a girl. One part of the story is set in 1950s Moscow, Russia during the Cold War years, while the other follows the story of 1992 Moscow and London in the period after the collapse of USSR. Kick off time, live stream and latest team news. The picture was written and directed by the British author Shamim Sarif, adapting her novel of the same name (as she has done twice before, with “The World Unseen” and “I Can’t Think Straight”), and it’s the kind of dud in which the bad decisions pile up as you watch.