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Hitchcock’s Torn Curtain: A Glimpse of Life in the DDR

February 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment

At a moment when Das Leben der Anderen is generating huge buzz as a portrait of East German life under watchful Stasi eyes, it was odd to stumble across Alfred Hitchcock’s Torn Curtain, which featured Julie Andrews and Paul Newman as faux defectors trying to slip into and then out of the DDR, with a […]