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Timely tale of terror
MARIA DUARTE recommends an acutely contemporary film on the consequences of a neonazi atrocity

In the Fade (18)
Directed by Fatih Akin

 

INCREASING attacks on immigrants and the rise of fascism and neonazi white supremacists are the focus of this nail-biting drama, which also explores how far a woman would go to seek retribution for the deaths of her loved ones in a vicious terrorist attack.

 

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