Thirteen Days

Titolo originale: Thirteen Days
Regia: Roger Donaldson |
Anno: 2000
Origine: United States of America |
Generi: Storia Thriller
Tag: usa president | politics | atomic bomb | cold war | john f. kennedy | threat | cuban missile crisis | diplomacy | 1960s |
Cast: Kevin Costner | Bruce Greenwood | Steven Culp | Dylan Baker | Michael Fairman | Henry Strozier | Frank Wood | Kevin Conway | Tim Kelleher | Len Cariou | Bill Smitrovich | Shawn Driscoll | Drake Cook | Stephanie Romanov | Lucinda Jenney | Caitlin Wachs | Jon Foster | Matthew Dunn | Kevin O'Donnell | Janet Coleman | Bruce Thomas | Dakin Matthews | Liz Sinclair | Colette O'Connell | Karen Ludwig | Audrey Rapoport | Marliese Schneider | Ed Lauter | Walter Adrian | James Karen | Dan Ziskie | Peter White | Kelly Connell | Olek Krupa | Ilya Baskin | Timothy Jerome | Jack McGee | Lamar Smith | John Aylward | Madison Mason | Vivien Straus | Christopher Lawford | David O'Donnell | Gene Del Bianco | Benjamin Koldyke | Daniel Vergara | Ruben Moreno | Thomas Roberts | Sean Bergin | Alan Francis Sullivan | Robert Munstis | Michael Gaston | Joseph Repoff | J. Tucker Smith | Chris Henry Coffey | Oleg Vidov | Radu Gavor | Zitto Kazann | Alex Veadov | Jack Blessing | Tom Everett | Karl Makinen | Boris Lee Krutonog | Charles Esten | Charles Barrett | Darryl Smith | Allan Graf | Robert Miranda | Todd Sible | Marya Kazakova | Cliff Fleming | Craig Hosking | Michael R. Bowman | Greg Bronson | Walter Cronkite | Ryder Davis | Roger Ferreira | Armen Garo | Gilley Grey | Phil Hawn | Rick Kain | John F. Kennedy | Steven Koller | Pramod Kumar | Richard Rossi | Larry Strauss | Brad Yoder |

Ottobre 1962. Un aereo spia americano scopre sull'isola di Cuba una base missilistica in costruzione. Immediatamente si allerta lo Stato Maggiore. Kennedy si consulta rapidamente con il suo consigliere per la sicurezza Kenneth O'Donnell e con suo fratello Bob. La decisione viene presa: gli Stati Uniti non permetteranno all'URSS di installare missili con teste nucleari dinanzi alle loro coste. È la crisi. La più grave dopo la fine della seconda guerra mondiale. E questa volta il rischio è quello di un conflitto nucleare.

Approfondimenti

Kennedy refers to the Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman, which is [...] D
Robert Kennedy did not mention in his memoir that, at the start of the crisis, he was one of those " [...] D
Nikita Khrushchev later wrote, "We ended up getting exactly what we'd wanted all along, security for [...] D
The 1960s' vintage F-8s shown in the film are all real aircraft that were used by the Philippine Air [...] D
Kenny O'Donnell's joke about going back to Lyndon's ranch and shooting deer out of a convertible is [...] D
As a result of the resolution to the crisis, the Kennedy administration also ended its support for a [...] D
Actor Bruce Greenwood played U.S. President 'John F. Kennedy' in Thirteen Days (2000). He and Willia [...] D
According to the filmmaker's commentary, Bruce Greenwood and Steven Culp, who portray John F. Kenned [...] D
John F. Kennedy may have caused the Cuban Missile Crisis by ordering the unsuccessful Bay of Pigs in [...] D
One of the film's subplots is the tense and mistrustful relationship that existed between the Joint [...] D
After the meeting with the Soviet head of station, there is a glimpse of teletype message of October [...] D
Steven Culp lost approximately 15 lbs in order to play the slim Robert F. Kennedy. D
The fact that John F. Kennedy agreed to secretly remove US missiles from Italy and Turkey did not be [...] D
The real Ted Sorensen, President Kennedy's speech writer, is standing in the first cabinet meeting s [...] D
When Bruce Greenwood and Steven Culp were cast as JFK and RFK respectively, weeks ahead of the start [...] D
Due to the hysteria during the Cuban Missile Crisis, President Nixon enacted DEFCON 2 secretly durin [...] D
Since the Soviets were subsequently able to use Cuba as a port of call for their nuclear-armed subma [...] D
While this movie carries the same name as the book "Thirteen Days" by former Attorney General Robert [...] D
Steven Culp and Dylan Baker did their undergraduate study together at the College of William and Mar [...] D
Director Roger Donaldson and star Kevin Costner previously collaborated on the espionage film Senza [...] D
Universal Pictures was originally set to make the film with Phil Alden Robinson directing but shelve [...] D
This motion picture was originally instigated as a project for writer-director-producer Lawrence Kas [...] D
Many politicians and military men saw the resolution of the crisis as a defeat for the United States [...] D
Costner does not have an ear for accents and this is found in two of his films; this being one of th [...] D
On February 1, 2001, this was the first film to be screened at the White House by President George W [...] D
Ted Sorenson wrote most of "Profiles in Courage", a 1956 book that was credited to John F. Kennedy. D
Bruce Greenwood who portrayed John F. Kennedy was 44 years old when the movie was released, only one [...] D
When John F. Kennedy (Bruce Greenwood) consults with Dean Rusk (Henry Strozier) about air strikes, h [...] D
The pilots of the RF-8 Crusader which were shot at by the Cubans were played by actors with a connec [...] D
Although the F-8 aircraft used in the movie are real aircraft once used by the Philippine Air Force, [...] D
After the crisis, President Kennedy commissioned a limited number of paperweights in commemoration o [...] D
President John F. Kennedy very frequently set up recording machines during meetings at the White Hou [...] D
Actors Bruce Greenwood and Steven Culp play John F. Kennedy and his younger brother Robert F. Kenned [...] D
In the early briefing scene where Arthur Lundahl, director of the CIA's National Photographic Interp [...] D
Actor Steven Culp also played Robert F. Kennedy in Norma Jean e Marilyn (1996). D
During the height of the crisis the Soviet Union rushes to make the missiles operational. The movie [...] D
The aircraft shown carrying the President to Connecticut is an actual VC-137 (Boeing 707) Presidenti [...] D
If the truth regarding John F. Kennedy's secret deal with the USSR during the Cuban Missile Crisis h [...] D
Actor Christopher Lawford, who portrays Commander William B. Ecker, is a real-life nephew of former [...] D
Bruce Greenwood would later play Pres. Kennedy's Secretary of Defense (and close ally) Robert McNama [...] D
In Boston, Kevin Costner's attempt at a Boston accent is so notorious that a "Kevin Costner accent" [...] D
A scene that takes place in the Pentagon's Flag Plot shows Admiral George Anderson hollering at Defe [...] D
Robert Kennedy called for a fullscale military invasion of Cuba when the crisis began. D
The film accurately depicts White House Press Secretary Pierre Salinger as having been kept in the d [...] D
After John F. Kennedy leaks the Walter Lippmann column to the press, and the representative from the [...] D
Star Kevin Costner's second theatrical feature film to be set around former American president John [...] D
Kevin Costner considered directing before handing the reins over to Roger Donaldson. D
In 2001, Kevin Costner screened the film for Fidel Castro in Havana. D
When the longer range missiles are discovered it is noted they can reach anywhere in the continental [...] D
The second movie about President John F. Kennedy in which Kevin Costner stars as someone other than [...] D
The film's closing credits state that the picture was "filmed in Los Angeles, Washington D.C., Rhode [...] D
General Curtis LeMay called the imposed ending to the crisis "the greatest defeat in our entire hist [...] D
The vehicle that Kenny takes to see his son's football practice. is a 1963 Mercury Monterey Custom B [...] D
When in the car with Kenny, Bobby says that he hates being seen as the ruthless one. This is a reput [...] D
The destroyer Joseph P. Kennedy (DD-850) was loaned to the movie company by the Battleship Massachus [...] D