A Russian broker, a Middle East terrorist and North Korean spy Pyo Jong-seong have a meeting to make an illegal weapon trading deal. However, it is interrupted by unclear attackers. Pyo finds himself the centre of international manhunt.He does escape only to confront a difficlut quagrime that is conflict evidence to reveal why he is in such a deadly trap.
14 October 1958, Mersin, Turkey
7 October 1974, Kozoglu, Kelkit District, Turkey
9 August 1980, Asan, South Chungcheong Province, South Korea
30 October 1981, Seoul, South Korea
24 October 1979, South Korea
28 September 1981, South Korea
11 March 1978
September 12, 1985 in Varaklani, Latvia
26 March 1986, Unna, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
12 December 1960, Chungju, North Chungcheong Province, South Korea
1965, Worms, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
28 October 1973, South Korea
July 26, 1952
1 June 1971, Zurich, Switzerland
29 October 1948, Weimar, Thuringia, Germany
3 November 1964, Seoul, South Korea
1963
December 31, 2013
Even though there's moments of exciting action and the reassembling of a government hierarchy violently taking place in front of you, The Berlin File is strapped to its restraints by its slow, meandering pace.February 14, 2013
The Berlin File benefits from gritty surroundings that add a cold war realism to this otherwise confusing tale of conflicted loyalties and secret agendas.February 14, 2013
The story feels fairly perfunctory - not to mention unnecessarily knotty - but the well-connected leads do their best to ground it.February 15, 2013
There is something sharp, exciting and more original tucked within "The Berlin File" - and it is in moments a sleek, crackling film - but it all feels somehow misshapen.February 12, 2013
[A] formulaic but solid Cold War-style spy thriller, with North Korea pinch-hitting for the Soviet Union.February 15, 2013
'The Berlin File' takes Hollywood's penchant for spectacle and ADD visual neurosis to its logical albeit absurd conclusion.February 14, 2013
A sporadically entertaining, modestly ambitious shoot 'em up that frequently succumbs to spelling out its subtext.February 21, 2013
The movie offers just about all you could ask of a genre flick: poisonings, defections, a secret North Korean bank account, gloriously choreographed fights that go insanely over the top, febrile tension and doomy romance (but no sex).June 24, 2013
Retrospectively cold war in tone this provides action more brutal than balletic and the promise of a Bourne-style franchise in the making.February 14, 2013
The plot may be a challenge to figure out, but this crisply directed spy thriller from Korea holds your attention through its overall smooth professionalism.February 14, 2013
As soon as "The Berlin File" takes flight with its exhilarating action set pieces, memories of any muddles evaporate amid the tension and vivid engagement with settings, from courtyards to fields.February 12, 2013
Everything here, except the action scenes, [feels] sluggish and rote.