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A Most Wanted Man

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A Most Wanted Man

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An immigrant to Hamburg who has previously suffered torture tries to lay a claim to an inheritance from his father. His story attracts the attention of American and German intelligence agencies, who try to determine his identity as suspicions grow that he is a dangerous extremist. Thriller based on John le Carre's novel, starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rachel McAdams and Willem Dafoe

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A star rating of 3 out of 5.

Brian Pendreigh

John le Carré has been writing spy novels - and film-makers have been adapting them - for half a century now, ever since Richard Burton's archetypal world-weary agent decided he could not take it any more in The Spy Who Came In from the Cold. Philip Seymour Hoffman, in one of his final performances, presents us with more of the same - a rumpled, unshaven operative called Günther Bachmann, who likes his whisky and has seemingly been shunted sideways or downwards after some previous cock-up. The enemy has changed, from the Russians to Muslim terrorists, but the arena of conflict has not, as the drama unfolds in Germany. Hoffman is playing German, with a decent accent, and his character is based in Hamburg, where the film begins with a man dramatically emerging silently from a river. We are into familiar territory as Bachmann discovers the mystery man is a Chechen refugee, come to lay claim to the bank deposit of his late Russian father. Bachmann battles to make sense of it all, while keeping one step ahead of the Americans and rival German agencies. Hoffman heads an impressive cast and the plot is well crafted, even if the characters and moral uncertainties seem very familiar and the message remains the same - it's a grubby business, trust no one.

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Cast

rolenameGünther BachmannPhilip Seymour HoffmanAnnabel RichterRachel McAdamsThomas Brue, "Tommy"Willem DafoeMartha SullivanRobin WrightMaximilianDaniel BrühlIrna FreyNina HossIssa KarpovGrigory DobryginDr Faisal AbdullahHomayoun Ershadi

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rolenameDirectorAnton Corbijn

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Theatrical distributor

E1 Entertainment

Released on

2014-09-12

Languages

English | Arabic | Turkish

Guidance

Swearing

Available on

DVD and Blu-ray

Formats

Colour

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