Christina

Christina is a moving and powerful film. It is cleverly staged and lighted. The performances of the 3 main characters are all compelling. It is a dramatic, captivating story that is remarkable relevant to today's world of seemingly endless war. The effects of war, subtle and profound, are presented in a way that makes the living hell become real for those fortunate to have not experienced it first hand. The fact that the film was shot in a condensed time frame, sequentially and on a limited budget make it even more remarkable. The entire movie is shot on one set, yet the camera movements and angles amplify the dialog very effectively and focus the attention of the viewer.

This has got to be one among the best jobs of acting I've seen, especially when the play consisted of just three actors. I say a play because I felt like I was at a play and not watching a movie. It was awesome. Nicki Aycox did such a great job in the lead role, and Jordan Belfi and Stephen Lang were great in their respective roles. The whole movie occurs in one room, and starts like you know know what's going to happen, but as it goes on, it builds up into a mystery and you don't know what's really going. The actors really make you feel like you are there, right at the end of World War 2 in Germany. You get pulled into the characters lives and it makes you think and feel about what their lives were like, and makes you think hard about the story. Great job, well done. Thank you!

Screenwriters spend years learning their craft and the first thing they are taught is to bring the action OUTSIDE of four walls, plus scenes shouldn't last longer than a page or two. This film throws out all screenwriting convention and keeps the actors talking in one, claustrophobic apartment for the entirety of the film. Not only is the lack of action and scenery boring, but it just made me, the viewer antsy wanting a new scene, a new locale, an introduction of a NEW CHARACTER (another actor), ANYTHING to free the viewer of this ultimate boredom. The actress is quite good and engaging, but she doesn't have much to work with here. The male lead is just not good, or maybe all he's been given are reactions to the plot. I've always liked Stephen Lang, but as a German inspector, his performance seems stiff and uncomfortable. Consequently, this film goes absolutely nowhere other than to anger the viewer!! 👎🏼👎🏼

This is a serious morality play. With only 3 characters, played in a single room, it begins slowly and builds to a gripping climax. The German police inspector and the woman he intends to arrest and deliver to the American authorities for trial are superbly played by Stephen Lang and Nicki Aycox, respectively. The American soldier, well-played by Jordan Belfi, represents American decency, as well as the general naivete of American soldiers in general -- a naivete commented upon by the inspector. Billed as based on actual events, I surmise that it was crafted out of a number of real-life events in Germany after the Russians took over Berlin. I strongly recommend it.

This drama takes place in a single room, a place at first of playfulness and mounting sexual tension, and then very skillfully the film's dialog shifts to confront the viewer with a complex and tense emotional situation that lays bare the awful choices that a young mother has had to face in the holocaust of Nazi Berlin's final days. Steven Lang's performance as a tenacious police detective is totally unexpected for those who saw him as the wonderfully tyrannical Colonel in Avatar. Niki Aycock endowed her character with such a sweep of emotional scope that it could well have required therapy after the shoot. Jordan Belfi's role is that of a reactor to the duel taking place between Lang an Aycock and he handles it seamlessly.It is reassuring that true art can still be produced on a budget when an intelligent script and sensitive direction give fine actors a platform. Superb, instinctive acting is accomplished by the three person cast. A thought provoking and engaging film.