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Title: A botched movie with some very good actors.
Review: The actors are excellent and the movie gives what seems to be a good presentation of life at the beginning of the 20th century in the Austro-Hungarian Empire.However, there is little connection between the real story of Colonel Redl's betrayal as a Russian spy and the confusing plot of this movie.The real story, entirely missed by the script, was that Redl had modernized Austrian counter-espionage techniques, and, ironically was in the end caught by a colleague who had been trained by himself. What goes around, comes around...You'll learn more about this story on Wikipedia. Why the movie makers decided to screw up a good plot, we'll never know.
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