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Funeral in Berlin is the second Harry Palmer film starring Michael Caine, and though it's not as "art house" as The Ipcress Files, I think it might be the better film, or at least the better story. Not to say director Guy Hamilton (most famous for his extensive James Bond work) doesn't use some of the flair of the first film - the opening introduction of the two Berlins is a fine example - but he dials it down a lot. But Harry is definitely more Bondian in this film, getting some great zingers, getting the girl, etc. The action is, of course, more down to Earth and procedural, which is fine by me. The convoluted plot about agents working at cross-purposes to get an important Soviet defector out of East Germany is good to the last drop (of bodies!), and definitely rewatchable to catch every little double-cross. Caine is at his coolest weathering all this. The Ipcress File is more memorable, but Funeral in Berlin avoids its weird sci-fi(ish) plot and gives us a great paranoid thriller. Don't let the ordinary title fool you.