Zero Dark Thirty

original title:
Zero Dark Thirty
other titles:
La noche más oscura, 00.30, A Hora Mais Escura, Wróg numer 1
country / year of production:
USA / 2012
original length:
157 min. , color
premiere:
USA: 19 December 2012
GER: 31 January 2013
genre:
drama
based on:
director:
Kathryn Bigelow
film script:
Mark Boal
producer:
Kathryn Bigelow , Mark Boal , Megan Ellison
cinematographer:
Greig Fraser
editor:
William Goldenberg , Dylan Tichenor
composer:
cast (role):
Jason Clarke (Dan) , Reda Kateb (Ammar) , Jessica Chastain (Maya) , Kyle Chandler (Joseph Bradley) , Jennifer Ehle (Jessica) , Jason Clarke , Reda Kateb , Jessica Chastain , Kyle Chandler , Jennifer Ehle
more:
plot synopsis:
Mary Lambert, a CIA specialist, made it her life task to find Osama Bin Laden. She starts working for the CIA in 2003 and persecutes Al-Qaida. Using "enhanced interrogation methods", torture, she finds several traces, some of which turn out to be false. After 2009 her team is able to find bin Ladens whereabouts in Pakistan which the Navy SEALs raid at half past midnight on May 2, 2011. Bin Laden is shot and transported away.
keywords:
based on a true story , terrorism , torture , secret service , special forces
war:
"War against Terrorism"
literature:
remarks:
This film was called pro-torture propaganda for its portrayal of the so-called "enhanced interrogation techniques". Even the acting CIA director called this false: these interrogation techniques were not the key to finding Bin Laden.
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