“burial” It starts out suspenseful enough. The year 1991 opens in the London home of Anna (Harriet Walter), a Russian-Jewish woman, watching her news on TV of Mikhail S. Gorbachev’s resignation as Soviet president.
It’s a historic night when neo-Nazis (David Alexander) break into Anna’s home. Luckily, Anna jumps on him and handcuffs him to the radiator. He thinks Anna covered up evidence that Hitler survived while serving as a Russian officer at the end of World War II. I made it
Writer-director Ben Parker’s film takes you back in time to Berlin in 1945 — and the tension dissipates. It turns out that young Anna, then known as Brana (Charlotte Vega), was part of her secret mission to transport her striking coffin-shaped box to Moscow. Parker intends the viewer to speculate as to what it’s about, but the trailer reveals something pretty obvious – it’s Hitler’s remains. We are told, and Brana wants the world to see that Hitler was both human and a coward.
the story invented, by itself, is not particularly exciting. Ridiculously, obstinate German soldiers armed with hallucinogenic lichens are eager to retrieve the corpse and produce proof that it is fake, but the transportation of the corpse is precisely the “horrifying Not in a “reward” situation, dark night visuals are useless. Moreover, inconsistent language choices (Russian and German scripts mostly stick to English, but Poles sometimes speak Polish) only add to the confusion.
burial
Unrated. Running time: 1 hour 35 minutes. Available for rental or purchase in theaters from Apple TV, Google Play, other streaming platforms, and pay-TV operators.