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Story
To know more than the CIA for a change! This biting spy satire is based on real events and lampoons the German intelligence agency BND, which was looking to land a prestige coup and messed up left, right and centre. BND biologist Arndt Wolf (Sebastian Blomberg) is absolutely convinced that Iraq is still producing the neurotoxin anthrax. But no-one’s interested – until the Iraqi asylum-seeker Rafid Alwan (Dar Salim) claims to have worked on Saddam Hussein’s secret chemical weapons programme as a engineer. Wolf and his boss Schatz (Thorsten Merten) are electrified: in contrast to the Americans, they have first-hand evidence! But the story is a fake and sets in train an absurd drama.
Director
JOHANNES NABER (*1971) makes provocative political cinema. His film Der Albaner (2010) won the Max Ophüls Prize and Zeit der Kannibalen (2014) was awarded among other things the German Film Prize for Best Screenplay.Info
Curveball
Fiction Feature
German
Große Freiheit//FF2020
Germany
2020
108 min
OV
Johannes Naber
Oliver Keidel, Johannes Naber
Sebastian Blomberg, Dar Salim, Virginia Kull, Michael Wittenborn, Thorsten Merten, Franziska Brandmeier
Amir Hamz, Christian Springer, Fahri Yardim
Sten Mende
André Zacher
Anne Jünemann
Johannes Naber
Tamo Kunz
Juliane Meier, Christian Röhrs
Stefanie Groß, Manfred Hattendorf (SWR), Uta Cappel (ARTE), Silke Schütze, Thomas Schreiber (NDR), Cornelius Conrad (BR)
Filmwelt Verleihagentur GmbH
Arri Media International
Bon Voyage Films
Marc Klocker, Filmwelt Verleihagentur GmbH: m.klocker@fwem.de
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