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Un científico estadounidense deserta públicamente a Alemania del Este como parte de una misión encubierta para encontrar la solución a una fórmula antes de planear una huida de vuelta a Occi... Leer todoUn científico estadounidense deserta públicamente a Alemania del Este como parte de una misión encubierta para encontrar la solución a una fórmula antes de planear una huida de vuelta a Occidente.Un científico estadounidense deserta públicamente a Alemania del Este como parte de una misión encubierta para encontrar la solución a una fórmula antes de planear una huida de vuelta a Occidente.
- Premios
- 3 nominaciones
Hansjörg Felmy
- Heinrich Gerhard
- (as Hansjoerg Felmy)
Gloria Govrin
- Fräulein Mann
- (as Gloria Gorvin)
Elisabeth Alexander
- Bus Passenger
- (sin acreditar)
Elizabeth Alexander
- Bus Passenger
- (sin acreditar)
Don Ames
- Theatre Patron
- (sin acreditar)
Chris Anders
- Blond Aide to Mr. Gerhard
- (sin acreditar)
- Dirección
- Guión
- Brian Moore
- Willis Hall(sin acreditar)
- Keith Waterhouse(sin acreditar)
- Todo el reparto y equipo
- Producción, taquilla y más en IMDbPro
Argumento
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- CuriosidadesIn a conversation with François Truffaut, Sir Alfred Hitchcock said that he included the fight scene deliberately to show the audience how difficult it can be to kill a man, because several spy thrillers at the time made killing look effortless.
- PifiasIn East Berlin there are several Volkswagen Käfer / Beetle on the street which is a west German car and definitely not would have been found in east Berlin. The car which they took from the airport to the hotel is a Mercedes Benz, a west German car as well.
- Citas
Professor Michael Armstrong: Just give me five minutes with her. After all, she is my girl.
Sarah Sherman: Put that in the past tense.
- Versiones alternativasIn the original version, various German dialogues are translated to English (i.e. at the airport). In the German version, these translations were removed. Additionally, letters written in English were replaced with letters written in German.
- ConexionesEdited into Terremoto (1974)
Reseña destacada
less than Hitch's best
The first time I watched "Torn Curtain," I grew bored and turned it off before it was over. I've watched it in its entirety more than once since then. It's difficult not to conclude that the master director's age was beginning to take its toll by 1966. It could have been a great film except for some major flaws.
First, the main characters. Newman and Andrews look distinctly ill-at-ease and their acting is wooden. There is very nearly no chemistry between them, and viewers are not really drawn into their somewhat implausible situation. Both actors are compelling in other films, but for some reason not in this one.
Second, Hitchcock would have done better to keep his villains' identity less specific. In "The Lady Vanishes", "The Thirty-nine Steps," and "North by Northwest," the identity of the foreign agents is left deliberately vague and thus little plausibility need be attached to their actions. Here they are East German communists, of which we know rather a lot.
Third, there are inconsistencies in the plot. At one point Newman and Andrews are forced to go out into an open space to avoid being overheard. But in another scene a pro-western spy communicates confidential information to Newman in a hospital room, seemingly oblivious to the possibility of wiretaps.
Finally, there's John Addison's score, which seems to have been written quite independently of the film's action. A suspenseful scene is inappropriately matched with cheerful, melodic music. Everyone knows, of course, that Hitch's longtime musical collaborator, Bernard Herrmann, wrote a mostly complete score for the film, but the two had a falling out on the set and Herrmann was dismissed. Another example of poor judgement on Hitchcock's part. Herrmann's score would have immeasurably improved a mediocre film. (Look at "Obsession" nearly a decade later.) With all the recent film restorations, I would love to see someone redo "Torn Curtain" and put in as much of Herrmann's score as the composer was able to finish. (But perhaps there would be copyright problems.) Had Herrmann's score been used, the murder sequence in the farmhouse might have become as famous as the shower scene in "Psycho."
As I was watching the protagonists flee through the East German landscape in their efforts to reach the west, I found myself thinking that, if they had only waited another twenty-three years, the wall would have come down anyway and they could simply have walked out! That's how much their plight gripped me.
First, the main characters. Newman and Andrews look distinctly ill-at-ease and their acting is wooden. There is very nearly no chemistry between them, and viewers are not really drawn into their somewhat implausible situation. Both actors are compelling in other films, but for some reason not in this one.
Second, Hitchcock would have done better to keep his villains' identity less specific. In "The Lady Vanishes", "The Thirty-nine Steps," and "North by Northwest," the identity of the foreign agents is left deliberately vague and thus little plausibility need be attached to their actions. Here they are East German communists, of which we know rather a lot.
Third, there are inconsistencies in the plot. At one point Newman and Andrews are forced to go out into an open space to avoid being overheard. But in another scene a pro-western spy communicates confidential information to Newman in a hospital room, seemingly oblivious to the possibility of wiretaps.
Finally, there's John Addison's score, which seems to have been written quite independently of the film's action. A suspenseful scene is inappropriately matched with cheerful, melodic music. Everyone knows, of course, that Hitch's longtime musical collaborator, Bernard Herrmann, wrote a mostly complete score for the film, but the two had a falling out on the set and Herrmann was dismissed. Another example of poor judgement on Hitchcock's part. Herrmann's score would have immeasurably improved a mediocre film. (Look at "Obsession" nearly a decade later.) With all the recent film restorations, I would love to see someone redo "Torn Curtain" and put in as much of Herrmann's score as the composer was able to finish. (But perhaps there would be copyright problems.) Had Herrmann's score been used, the murder sequence in the farmhouse might have become as famous as the shower scene in "Psycho."
As I was watching the protagonists flee through the East German landscape in their efforts to reach the west, I found myself thinking that, if they had only waited another twenty-three years, the wall would have come down anyway and they could simply have walked out! That's how much their plight gripped me.
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- 3 feb 2001
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Detalles
- Fecha de lanzamiento
- País de origen
- Sitio oficial
- Idiomas
- Títulos en diferentes países
- Cortina esquinçada
- Localizaciones del rodaje
- Tivoli, Copenhague, Dinamarca(restaurant)
- Empresa productora
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Taquilla
- Presupuesto
- 6.000.000 US$ (estimación)
- Recaudación en todo el mundo
- 613 US$
- Duración2 horas 8 minutos
- Color
- Relación de aspecto
- 1.85 : 1
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By what name was Cortina rasgada (1966) officially released in Canada in French?
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