The Fourth State

10/1/2026

Regular fans of these cold war thrillers might get enough from this, but it doesn't really offer us very much new. "Paul" (Moritz Bleibtreu) is a journalist who is enticed to Moscow from Berlin by publisher "Onjegin" (Rade Serbedzija) to look into an alleged Chechen terrorist attack that destroyed a block of residential flats killing many of it's occupants. Barely has he landed in the city when he witnesses the assassination of a fellow journalist - a man critical of the government, and then he finds himself involved with the equally controversial "Katja" (Kasia Smutniak) who is steering him towards crafting content for his ostensibly rather light and fluffy "society" newspaper that is bound to ruffle some official feathers. His naivete soon lands him in even more trouble when he gets caug