Hannah Maynard, a prosecutor of Hague's Tribunal for war crimes in former Yugoslavia, charges a Serbian commander for killing Bosniaks. However, her main witness might be lying, so the court sends a team to Bosnia to investigate.
Storm is harrowing, provocative and deeply probing yet quite involving.
– Kevin Thomas,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Nov 2009
fresh:
A political thriller with real-world resonance.
– Stephen Holden,
New York Times,
30 Oct 2009
fresh:
In this taut drama about the trial of a Bosnian Serb general from German director and co-writer Hans Christian Schmid, we see how justice can be subverted by interests as banal as international bureaucracy, despite the best intentions...
– Billy Heller,
New York Post,
30 Oct 2009
fresh:
It may sound like a simple lawyer-fights-for-righteousness tale, but this ostensible thriller is really an examination of two courageous female protagonists, both of whom find defeat at the intersection of the personal and the political.
– Andrew Grant,
Time Out New York,
28 Oct 2009
rotten:
The writing by director Hans-Christian Schmid and Bernd Lange is more stilted and righteous than even the U.N. environs, with its humanity-embracing procedural-speak, calls for.