Kleo | Official Trailer | Netflix
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Two years before the Berlin wall came down, an agent of the Stasi (East German secret police) sneaks into West Berlin and assassinates a man in a nightclub. When she returns to East Germany she is arrested and after a Kafkaesque trial is sentenced to life in prison. Three years later, the Berlin wall comes down, East Germany collapses and our girl walks out of prison a free woman.
She is, as you might expect, harboring a grudge against all and sundry who sent her up the river and she proceeds to methodically eliminate them.
It's a great story made better by having an average looking woman in the lead role instead of some sevelt beauty queen. You can believe she could do all the stuff they show her doing. Okay, there are instances that strain credibility, like I don't know how she managed to stick herself to a 12 foot ceiling, but I think they are in there just for entertainment value. In any case, these little bits don't distract from the story.
The whole bit about blind obedience and the secret machinations of the state sounds a whole lot like what's going on with all the political trials going on now in Washington, D. C.
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