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    Fatih Akin's new thriller 'In the Fade' looks at neo-Nazis and a disturbing world of terror and hate

    by Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times Dec 26, 2017 5 minutes

    The new film by Turkish German director Fatih Akin veers onto a shattered street and ventures into a world of neo-Nazis, immigration, suspicion and disconcerting questions over whether a woman can find repose in vengeance after a terrorist bombing kills her husband and young son.

    Akin is skilled in the collision of cultures and the intricacies of betrayal. His tense and devastating "In the Fade" explores what binds and separates us at a time of Islamic radicalism and rising alt-right militants. The story's protagonist Katja (Diane Kruger) wanders in the unsettled blurriness between moral quandary and searing loss in a tale that is at once psychological thriller and meditation on justice.

    The German film is an evolving portrait of Katja as she seeks to avenge the deaths of her son and Kurdish husband at the

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