The Fourth State

The Fourth State (Die vierte Macht, 2012) is a German political thriller you can watch online on iFILM. Director Dennis Gansel drops a western journalist into Moscow at a point where the story he came to cover and the one he actually lands in are two entirely different things.

Moritz Bleibtreu plays the reporter who arrives to investigate what looks like a terrorism angle and ends up detained by Russian intelligence instead. Kasia Smutniak co-stars as a journalist whose loyalties stay unclear throughout, while Rade Serbedzija and Max Riemelt round out an ensemble where everyone is holding something back. Gansel keeps the geography grounded and the politics murky — the kind of thriller that works because it never offers clean sides. Stream The Fourth State (2012) online on iFILM.