Western frontiers of the USSR, 1942. The region is under German occupation. A man is wrongly accused of collaboration. Desperate to save his dignity, he faces an impossible moral choice.
The world and its choices are often cruel, but for all the devastations visited on the characters, Mr. Loznitsa is searching for the human good amid a human catastrophe.
– Manohla Dargis,
New York Times,
13 Jun 2013
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Even when the pace wanes, the images are still gripping.
– Farran Smith Nehme,
New York Post,
14 Jun 2013
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In the Fog, which seems to me a masterpiece, is about occupation and the destruction of an understanding of one's own history.
– David Thomson,
The New Republic,
2 Jul 2013
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Intimate in the telling, sweeping in the implications, Loznitsa has created an unusually incisive film.
– Betsy Sharkey,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Jul 2013
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As remorseless in style as it is in message, "In the Fog" offers little hope and few pleasures, but earns admiration for its elegant exploration of the lowest depths of the human condition.