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Roslund & Hellström: Box 21 (2020)
Clever intriguing plot
Weaves between the lives of 4 people - A Romanian kidnapped to be a prostitute in Sweden, a nasty gangster & his henchman, the policeman & his wife who is crippled by the latter, and a Turkish petty thief, Sam.
Sam wouldn't get in to Australia, by the way, with is criminal record!
The Sleepers (2019)
Memories of Prague and the Velvet Revolution
I used to go to Prague a lot at this time from the UK. I was mainly interested in the pubs and drinking cheap Prazdroj but one night met an East German girl while sheltering from the rain on Charles Bridge. She was one of the young revolutionaries from the DDR who frequented Prague in those days. I made several trips to East Berlin after that to visit her, and she was very worried that the Stasi were going to clamp down on them, so it came as a pleasant shock to see the Berlin Wall fall on TV. I accompanied a friend of hers to job interviews (people were anxious to get a good job while they could) and sitting in the waiting room he pointed out all the ex-Stasi, saying he could smell them! I then spent some nice weeks in Strbske Pleso, Vysoké Tatry with a Slovak hezka holka - eventually my visa expired so I went to the police in Poprad to get an extension. He noticed that I had no receipts for exchanging money (having done it on the black market, of course) and was going to refuse until I said "I thought everything was better now under Vaclav Havel?" - he relented and stamped my passport! These were heady days indeed and I am glad to have been there at that time, though of course I could never know all the torment caused by the StB and communism in general. This series should be required viewing for all the young people now in BLM etc. Who seem to want to bring communism back again.
Dr Christian Will See You Now (2017)
How are you?
I find it a little silly that Angela Nakiyingi always greets the patients cheerfully and asks them "how are you?". If I were a patient I'd reply "not too good, actually - that's why I'm here!".