Despite the Falling Snow
During the Cold War, a female spy steals secrets from a politician after falling in love with him. And when he unwittingly closes the net around his own wife, she decides to make the ultimate sacrifice to protect him.
19 February 1987, Australia
1986, Wigan, Lancashire, England, UK
10 October 1946, Redditch, Worcestershire, England, UK
9 March 1975, Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia
20 February 1954, Camden, London, England, UK
26 January 1976, Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia
December 30, 2016
While it struggles to find rhythm, you can't fault Sarif's ambitions.
April 17, 2016
It is a wearily predictable tale of coincidence and tragedy.
March 30, 2017
So tasteful it's torturous, Despite the Falling Snow is a Cold War espionage thriller for those who like their period-piece action airless and derivative.
April 15, 2016
So many shivery night-time clinches in Moscow fill Despite the Falling Snow's modest runtime, you wonder what proportion of the budget went on that ever-whirring snow machine.
April 11, 2016
There's not enough time to become the poignant love story it wants to be.
April 01, 2017
It's the kind of dud in which the bad decisions pile up as you watch.
March 29, 2017
Despite its best intentions, Shamim Sarif's Cold War spy melodrama wastes star Rebecca Ferguson's talents and charisma.
March 30, 2017
Unfortunately, the strong cinematography from David Johnson and costume design by Momirka Bailovic can't overcome a lifeless, poorly structured script from Sarif, based on her own well received novel.
April 17, 2016
A dreary, incompetently plotted and flatly directed Cold War melodrama ...
April 15, 2016
There's great potential here, but the execution is far too clunky.
April 03, 2017
Respectably put together but inert ...
April 15, 2016
Writer-director Shamim Sarif... is aiming to create a tragic romance out of this intrigue yet misses her target thanks to her contrived plotting and trite dialogue.

