Jews find themselves out of step with most of world opinion, which heightens a widespread sense of apprehensiveness.

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In form, the movie is a detective story, but we watch with increasing apprehensiveness as it dawns on us that Pharaon might be a kind of sluggish Oedipus, a sleuth who uncovers the traces of a crime that he has committed himself.

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