The Interpreter

Titolo originale: The Interpreter
Regia: Sydney Pollack |
Anno: 2005
Origine: France | Germany | United Kingdom | United States of America |
Generi: Crime Thriller
Tag: destruction of a civilization | new york city | assassination | dictator | africa | resistance | fbi | revenge | murder | united nations | witness to murder | resistance fighter |
Cast: Nicole Kidman | Sean Penn | Catherine Keener | Jesper Christensen | Yvan Attal | Earl Cameron | George Harris | Michael Wright | Clyde Kusatsu | Eric Keenleyside | Hugo Speer | Maz Jobrani | Yusuf Gatewood | Curtiss Cook | Byron Utley | Robert Clohessy | Terry Serpico | David Fonteno | John Knox | David Zayas | Lynne Deragon | Christopher Evan Welch | Manuel Mawelele | Dino Mulima | Litto | Adrian Martinez | Tsai Chin | Francine Roussel | Enid Graham | Lou Ferguson | Okwui Okpokwasili | Vladimir Bibic | Jacques Sebag | Pietro González | Patrick Ssenjovu | Michael McGrath | Paul de Sousa | Chris McKinney | Martha Elliott | Jim Ward | Trevor Archer | Ricardo Walker | Harry O'Reilly | Kirby Mitchell | Guy A. Fortt | Ramsey Faragallah | John Di Benedetto | Bridget L. Doerksen | Ana Maria Lupo | Nelson Landrieu | Leonid Citer | Satish Joshi | Sophie Traub | Monty Ashton-Lewis | Pat Kiernan | Margot Staub | Harry Prichett | Ed Onipede Blunt | Diane Winter | Gerry Robert Byrne | Lisa Marie Palmieri | Brevard Hudson | Sydney Pollack | Michael Arthur | Hélène Cardona | Wayne Chang | Dana Eskelson | Von Decarlo |

Una interprete delle Nazioni Unite, Silvia Broome, inavvertitamente ascolta due persone che parlano di un complotto per assassinare qualcuno. Ad indagare sul caso viene chiamato un agente dei Servizi Segreti degli Stati Uniti, Tobin Keller.L'obiettivo ipotizzato è il presidente della Repubblica Democratica di Matobo, Edmond Zuwanie, il quale è atteso per un discorso all'Assemblea Generale delle Nazioni Unite al Palazzo di Vetro, in un tentativo disperato di mettere fine alle accuse mosse contro di lui dalla Corte Penale Internazionale; il suo regime, infatti, è tristemente noto per una crudele politica di pulizia etnica.Allo stesso tempo il fratello di Silvia, Simon, è in grave pericolo, perché tenta di organizzare un importante incontro tra i due maggiori opponenti al regime dittatoriale di Zuwanie, Kuman-Kuman e Ajene Xola.

Approfondimenti

Despite the high security at the U.N. and terror alerts, crew members were allowed to bring in knive [...] D
Filming at the United Nations could only take place on the weekends. Film crews would move in on a F [...] D
The original ending involved Sylvia Broome's having made up the assassination plot, in order to blac [...] D
Nicole Kidman signed on without having read any script. D
Sean Penn won his first Oscar during filming of this movie. By coincidence, the award was presented [...] D
This is the only collaboration between Nicole Kidman and Sean Penn. In 1996, when Kidman was overloo [...] D
Sean Penn would later direct Catherine Keener in Into the Wild (2007). D
The scene in the Security Council room was shot in one day. That room is on call 24/7 for emergency [...] D
The setting of the film inside the UN itself was the big attraction for Sydney Pollack, though he di [...] D
Yvan Attal, who plays in the film with Nicole Kidman, dubbed the dialogue for Tom Cruise's character [...] D
John Raffo did uncredited work on the script. D
Nicole Kidman cites South African as the hardest to perform convincingly of all the accents she's un [...] D
Matobo is the name of a National Park in Zimbabwe. D
Terry Serpico, David Zayas, and Sydney Pollack appear in 2007s Michael Clayton. D
Nicole Kidman is 5'11" tall; Sean Penn, 5'8". They are not shown standing side-by-side in scenes bec [...] D
This is the first film ever to be shot inside the United Nations Headquarters - locations include th [...] D
The telephones that appear in various shots of the United Nations building (Control Booth, Security [...] D
Stella Stark's debut. D
This is the third Sydney Pollack film in which someone speaks the line "you think not getting caught [...] D
Director Sydney Pollack met with Kofi Annan to get permission to film inside the U.N. in New York. D
Jackie Chan received a script for the film (the only time he's been offered a dramatic role in a US [...] D
A copy of the interpreter's booths were made so the crew could film during weekdays. D
The song Toban plays on the jukebox when he calls his answering machine is Lyle Lovett's "If I Had a [...] D
The fictional language of Ku is made up of two different African languages. D
The movie is banned in Zimbabwe, the country on which the fictional D. R. of Matobo was based. D
Writer David Rayfiel did some uncredited work on the script. D
When Catherine Keener gets on the helicopter around 25 minutes into the movie she receives a phone c [...] D
The role of Pettigrew was offered to a number of name actors, but Sydney Pollack only decided to pla [...] D
Filming was originally scheduled to take place in Toronto. Construction of a replica U.N. general as [...] D
Nicole Kidman had to interrupt filming to shoot additional scenes for La donna perfetta (2004) after [...] D
The American poster design has the flags in front of the U.N. building curved across the bottom. On [...] D
This is the first film that director Sydney Pollack shot in 2:40.1 aspect ratio since Tootsie in 198 [...] D
The first feature film to use Kodak's then-new Vision2 Expression 500T 5229 film stock. D
The last film feature directed by Sydney Pollack. D
Sean Penn was not originally interested in doing this film. He had had an overloaded work schedule f [...] D
Sylvia uses Scientology based Earthlink's webmail service. Her account is sylviabroome@earthlink.net [...] D
Because her character plays the flute, Nicole Kidman researched how to play the instrument for her p [...] D
Nicole Kidman took some days off shooting this film in order to work on an expensive perfume commerc [...] D
Nicole Kidman's part was written with her in mind, as she had worked with Sydney Pollack several tim [...] D
Director Sydney Pollack also directed The Firm, which starred Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman's then-husba [...] D
Some of the extras in the film (scenes in the General Assembly, the Security Council and in the secu [...] D