

The Informant

Behind the Iron Curtain, Geri leaves for college, looks forward to meeting girls and partying and joins a group of radicals led by the charismatic Száva. But Geri has a secret. He’s an informant of the totalitarian state and to save his brother, he’s been forced to spy on his new friends for State Security.
[HBO Max] Arguably works better as a depiction of the problems of present-day Hungary than as a faithfully historical recreation. When a Soviet flag is burned, there is an implicit criticism of the good relations Orbán/Putin. And this feeds the interest of a story that, otherwise, works well as a political thriller that takes place in a time of death of the communist dream, a few years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, in the midst of a Cold War that in the streets it is a boiling battle.