King of Endings
King of Endings
| 01 January 1987 (USA)
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Branko Kralj is an alienated businessman and avid chess fan. He is married to the attractive Visnja and they have a son. Their marriage is weak and Branko feels much closer to his mistress than to his wife. One day Kralj and Visnja travel on a half empty train. Kralj goes to a far away compartment for a game of chess, and leaves Visnja alone. Three men take advantage of the lone woman in her compartment and rape her.

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Stephan Hammond

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

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Ariella Broughton

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

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Philippa

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

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Dana

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

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ereinion

This is a brutal and disturbing thriller. Irfan Mensur plays a man who cheats on his wife and loves to play chess. His wife is brutally raped by three men on a train while he is in another part of the train playing chess with an old man. When he gets there the rapists are gone, and his wife screams at him that he's never there when she needs him and jumps out of the train, killing herself. Crushed and filled with guilt he seeks revenge and starts to investigate, with greater difficulties. Nobody seems to have been around when the rape took place and his companion at the chess table offers no help either. But slowly the pieces fall together and a disturbing truth is revealed.Irfan Mensur is brilliant in the role of guilt stricken and revenge-hungry man. It is a dark and dramatic film which also has a few violent scenes, especially the climax is full of brutality when Mensur settles the score with the rapists. It has a few surprising twists, as when we find out the identity of the rapists. All in all, a pretty interesting film but also a very dark and brutal one.

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