A Most Wanted Man
This story presents a wide range of exciting events in Hamburg. That story began when there was a mysterious man trying to get himself back before he completely collapsed. That story begins when Günther Bachmann, a dangerous German spy, tries to track down that mysterious man in order to identify his mysterious identity.
1986, Dresden, German Democratic Republic
8 February 1962, Gelsenkirchen, Germany
12 April 1956, Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany
1961, Eutin, Schleswig-Holstein, West Germany
22 July 1955, Appleton, Wisconsin, USA
1957
4 October 1983, Luxembourg, Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg
19 December 1970, Samedan, Graubünden, Switzerland
17 November 1978, London, Ontario, Canada
8 April 1966, Dallas, Texas, USA
16 June 1978, Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
1977
1977 in Schwaz, Tyrol, Austria
23 July 1967, Fairport, New York, USA
1948, Itzehoe, Germany
20 May 1955, Strijen, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
12 March 1965, Dresden, Saxony, German Democratic Republic
31 July 1954, Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
30 May 1984, Hamburg, West Germany
1958
1947, Isfahan, Iran
19 August 1959, Istanbul, Turkey
24 February 1959, Leverkusen, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany
7 July 1975, Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
17 February 1986, Rybachiy, Vilyuchinsk, Kamchatskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Kamchatskiy kray, Russia]
15 December 1974, Berlin, Germany
June 14, 2016
In a spy flick, we want to see action. We want to see Jason Bourne jumping off a roof. We want tension, not realism-not smoking and meetings and yakking.
April 15, 2016
A bittersweet curtain call for the late Philip Seymour Hoffman.
June 21, 2015
Cobijn doesn't totally conquer le Carré's complicated plot
July 14, 2016
A Most Wanted Man is a rare feature: a relatively smart take on the war on terror that doesn't devolve into ideological score settling.
January 05, 2015
This is the sharpest, most reasonable tale of espionage and intrigue since John Boorman's Tailor of Panama.
July 26, 2016
It drags on a little long, but you can't look away.
September 22, 2014
It was shot in dark, lurid, vital Hamburg; Hoffman is the star; and I was completely held.
January 05, 2015
One of the countless sad things about losing Hoffman is the realization that we'll never get to watch him single-handedly elevate an otherwise OK movie again.
June 21, 2016
As their entire mission rests on the most minuscule of actions, Corbijn has crafted a smart, slow-burn thriller.
January 05, 2015
"A Most Wanted Man" allows Hoffman to go out with not only one of his best performances, but one that epitomizes his strengths.
September 09, 2014
Given the deadly stakes, this should be gripping, but the film gets sucked into academic plot details, trudging through each rendezvous and stakeout.
January 05, 2015
Hoffman's an actor who could do just about anything, but being authentically German is not one of them.
