UCLA college student Jonathan Moore (Anthony Edwards) is playing a game called "Gotcha" (popular on mid-1980s college campuses as "Assassin" or "Tag"), wherein the players are all assigned a mock "hit" on another player by use of a harmless paintball gun. Moore and his apartment roommate Manolo go on a vacation to Paris, France. After touring some of Paris, in a cafe Moore meets Sasha Banicek (Linda Fiorentino), a Czechoslovakian girl. Eventually, Jonathan has intercourse with Sasha, losing his virginity.
Jonathan decides to leave Manolo (who is heading to Spain) and go with Sasha to West Berlin to spend more time with her. Jonathan believes that he is in love with Sasha. There, Jonathan and Sasha continue to have sex and even go to an Oktoberfest beer gathering. One night, Sasha tells Jonathan that she has to go to East Berlin to pick up a package. One night after arriving in East Berlin, Sasha leaves their hotel room and walks to dark street corner. There, Sasha meets a German man who tells her the location of the pickup of her package. Meanwhile, Sasha was being monitored by a Soviet agent, who was sitting in a car at a distance. During the day, Sasha tells Jonathan that if she gives him a certain message, it means that he has to leave East Berlin immediately. At a cafe, Sasha gives Jonathan a package and says that a strudel is inside. A little later, Sasha tells Jonathan to meet her at the butcher shop near their hotel. All of a sudden, a Soviet agent begins to chase after Sasha. Sasha decides to use Jonathan (who is holding her package) to unknowingly get the package over to West Berlin. Meanwhile, Sasha is taken by the Soviet agent and East German secret police.
Jonathan goes to Checkpoint Charlie to cross the heavily fortified border into West Berlin. At the East German customs search, Jonathan is stripped of his clothes and given a cavity search. Meanwhile, Sasha is stripped and searched for possible espionage evidence. Vlad arrives at the border crossing to search for Jonathan, however Jonathan passes the border safely before he can be captured. Once in West Berlin, Jonathan feels liberated by the Westernized society. In the hotel, Jonathan receives a message from Sasha to meet him at a specified location. Jonathan finds out that his hotel room was broken into and robbed of his traveler's checks. Soviet agents eventually find Jonathan in West Berlin and chase him throughout a public park. Jonathan jumps into a water canal and manages to escape from the Soviets and stumbles upon a German rock group headed for Hamburg, who offer him a ride to the airport.
The rock group successfully get Jonathan to the airport (using full-face makeup to sneak him past a checkpoint) and Jonathan finally arrives in Los Angeles Tom Bradley International Airport and to his apartment. Soon, Vlad and a band of Soviet agents arrive too in Los Angeles. Once home, Jonathan stumbles upon a film canister, which was planted by Sasha. Jonathan visits his parents and tells them what happened in Germany but they cannot believe a word of it and think Jonathan is on drugs. Jonathan decides to call the FBI then the Central Intelligence Agency for help. Jonathan returns to find his apartment broken into and looted.
The CIA officer tells Jonathan to give them the photo film canister. At the Los Angeles headquarters of the CIA, Jonathan spots Sasha who looks like she was working there. Jonathan eventually meets up with Sasha. Sasha admits that she is Cheryl Brewster, a CIA agent, originally from Pittsburgh. Out of nowhere, Vlad and his gang begin to chase Jonathan and Cheryl on the UCLA campus. Jonathan eliminates all the Soviets with a tranquilizer gun which he gets from the campus veterinary sciences building. The Soviets are arrested, the CIA agents thank Jonathan for his (indirect) help in obtaining the film, and Sasha tells him she wants to continue their relationship.
After they part, Jonathan talks to a pretty student who rebuffs him coldly. As she walks away, he aims the tranquilizer pistol and shoots her in the rear.
有些说putin是当代小hitler的，不是坏就是傻，被西方洗脑洗傻了
电影感其实蛮弱的。抛下了很多战争引发的年轻人的思索和选择。
Jeremy Irons很棒；一首德文jazz 一首片尾曲都很棒；有种追忆似水年华的味道。
感觉精髓是片尾阴天下被攥在手里的纸，真的很脆弱
看得让人血压飙升，张伯伦得无知和傲慢真是让人火大，本来有机会压制一个邪恶政权的崛起，却因为一个lasting peace的delusion屡屡错失良机，最终喂养出一个庞然大物，不可笑吗？如果早点介入，希特勒何德何能建立起一支大军？一将无能累死三军，张伯伦代表的这群无脑的精英派高层实在是对希特勒无知得令人发指。自诩精英，口若悬河地斥责着德国人让他们明白政治现实，自己却对希特勒的勃勃野心一无所知，老年人霸占着位置真的不好，身体不好，没有斗志，一天只能工作几个小时，这样的虫豸怎么搞好政治？睡觉比看秘密文件都当紧？他妈的老了就退休，占着茅坑不拉屎的废物
单就电影表现，张力还是比较足，能够吸引人。但是电影的背景设定，未必是人人认同，二战的历史可谓世人皆知，影片的设定就是二战不可避免，希特勒无人可以阻止，无论作何努力，只是延迟结果的到来，所以张伯伦是一个隐忍国家英雄，为英国的备战争取了时间。历史的结果是这样的，历史的成因果真如此么？
此时看这部电影，时机刚刚好，剧情与现实相交映照，产生一种奇妙的历史幻觉。
合着英国佬还觉得二战的爆发没自己的锅了是吧，张伯伦尽力了，换邱吉尔全杀了是吧
我分不清Hugh Legat和Joe Alwyn
不要再塑造一个又一个千篇一律的妻子角色了，真的。
除了杰瑞米艾恩斯的表演外，这部电影可以说毫无是处
7/10
不想打仗就要牺牲他人，这种做法是符合人性的。战争是逼不得已而为之的，借此可以分析下目前的东欧问题，可能程度还远远不够扩大化。
抛开史实不谈的话，片子拍的很好，就是前期手持太抖了点，演员演技太棒了，氛围感满分。
关键情节看得很紧张，历史从来不是只有一面，人性泯灭太残酷了，希望种族主义能灭绝。
彼时彼刻恰似此时此刻。两个年轻男主的人物设置比较吸睛，多给一星。
小酒店的重逢；
多一星给摄影。我一直都还蛮喜欢这种手持加快切的胶片色画面。
且不说对张伯伦的描绘，看时恰俄乌战争刚起，而每一个年轻人的命运因战争而失去了控制
电影拍得都很好，但是这个史观和价值观真是让我作呕！
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