Mark-Rhoads2
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This is a terrific movie with several great performances. Richard Burton is wooden but Oskar Werner as the German Jewish Communist Fiedler is at his best with nuance and intensity.
George Voskovec, a very talented actor who played one of the jury members in Twelve Angry Men, has a small but important role as the East German defense attorney for Mundt. But there is one glaring mistake in the dialog. Voskovec refers to someone making a trip "behind the Iron Curtain." Winston Churchill coined that term in 1948 in his famous college speech at Fulton, Missouri. It is impossible to think that any East German Communist attorney in an East German secret tribunal would ever use the term "Iron Curtain" to refer to what good Communists would call the western frontier from their perspective.
George Voskovec, a very talented actor who played one of the jury members in Twelve Angry Men, has a small but important role as the East German defense attorney for Mundt. But there is one glaring mistake in the dialog. Voskovec refers to someone making a trip "behind the Iron Curtain." Winston Churchill coined that term in 1948 in his famous college speech at Fulton, Missouri. It is impossible to think that any East German Communist attorney in an East German secret tribunal would ever use the term "Iron Curtain" to refer to what good Communists would call the western frontier from their perspective.
