August Diehl... invests the twentysomething Marx with a quick mind and a feverish impatience that propel the narrative forward, his energy a real asset to a film that trades heavily in ideas.

Peck's work is handsome; what it lacks is a true sense of danger, a feeling of history roiling in the present tense.

Kolja Brandt's cinematography makes a modest production budget look lavish.

Maybe the film is too even tempered, and that might be the reason the film wasn't widely seen, but it deserves some serious attention while our world is burning more ways than one right now.