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Weak Spot (1975)

Weak Spot poster
Original title
La Faille
Directed by
Peter Fleischmann
Genre
thriller film
Country
Germany, France, Italy
Runtime
1h 50m
Rating
6.5 of 10 from 18 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A man in a repressive regime discovers a hidden flaw in the system that could be his undoing. He tries to navigate a society where surveillance and suspicion control everyone's lives. The film follows his attempts to escape an ever tightening trap.

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What happens

Weak Spot (French: La faille, Italian: La smagliatura, German: Der dritte Grad) is a 1975 French-Italian-German thriller film directed by Peter Fleischmann. It is based on the novel The Flaw by Antonis Samarakis. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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