The plot is intriguing; a young German POW decides to help the allied effort to end WWII by becoming a spy. After he is dropped behind German lines in a snowy Bavaria with the sole task to locate the whereabouts of a Panzerdivision, we follow his route to the Rhine in a destroyed, disintegrating, desolate Germany, where only the Gestapo is functioning effectively. With the beautiful work of the camera the grimness of the bombed Germany becomes a backdrop to the soldier's moral dilemma of becoming a spy against his Fatherland. This conflict is well accentuated. This is a great movie, probably the best "real" spy movie I have seen.
Review of Decision Before Dawn
