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a most wanted man Dankzij zijn droomdebuut CONTROL maakte de A MOST WANTED MAN staat te boek als de Nederlandse fotograaf Anton Corbijn in 2007 in zwanenzang van hoofdrolspeler Philip Seymour één klap naam en faam als filmregisseur. Hij Hoffman, die begin dit jaar overleed in New kon vervolgens overal aan de slag. Dat leverde in York. Tegelijkertijd lijkt de film het definitieve 2010 THE AMERICAN op, een thriller met George startschot voor de Hollywood-carrière van de Clooney. Dit jaar presenteert Corbijn opnieuw Nederlandse cameraman Hoyte van Hoytema een thriller: A MOST WANTED MAN, gebaseerd op (LET THE RIGHT ONE IN, TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER het gelijknamige boek van John le Carré. SPY). Hij bewijst opnieuw dat hij minstens zo’n De film draait om een even actueel als complex uniek filmisch oog heeft als Corbijn zelf. plot rond een Tsjetsjeens-Russische vluchteling, die plots opduikt binnen de Islamitische regie: Anton Corbijn gemeenschap van de Duitse havenstad met: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Robin Wright, Willem Hamburg. Issa Karpov heet hij, en hij probeert Dafoe, Nina Hoss, Daniel Brühl samen met een advocate de grote erfenis van DUI/GBR/USA 2014 • thriller • 121 min. zijn overleden vader in handen te krijgen. Daardoor loopt Karpov in de kijker bij de Amerikaanse en Duitse veiligheidsdiensten, met voorop de getormenteerde speurder Günther Bachmann (Philip Seymour Hoffman). Is Karpov wel een vluchteling? Of is hij een spion, of misschien toch een terrorist? Vervolgens ontspint zich een klassiek en spannend verhaal, waar Le Carré zo’n patent op heeft. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org).

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