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> Sadly, the movie really shows it's age when the "cultural attaché" starts lecturing Robert Redford's character that "our countries are friends now". It's hard to suspend disbelief watching it nowadays

But it's set in the past, when relations between the countries were much friendlier. Do you have trouble suspending disbelief during fictional movies set in WWII, because the U.S. and Germany are now allies?




>But it's set in the past, when relations between the countries were much friendlier. Do you have trouble suspending disbelief during fictional movies set in WWII, because the U.S. and Germany are now allies?

Were they?


Ostensibly they were much friendlier than before, sometimes even collaborating on a project here or there. I think if you listen carefully you can hear a little bit of humor in Greg saying it.


My head canon is that Gregor was a source for the CIA who got lucky the USSR collapsed.




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