Traitor (2008)

TRAITOR is writer/director Jeffrey Nachmanoff's powerful rumination on post-9/11 foreign affairs wrapped up into a taut contemporary spy thriller. Balancing the film's sometimes conflicted ideological heft is Don Cheadle, who turns in a smartly even-keeled performance as Samir Horn, a Sudanese-born, Chicago-raised former U.S. Army Special Forces operative. The action begins with a jarring prologue set in Sudan in 1978, where the young Samir witnesses the murder of his father by car bombing. Jumping swiftly to present day Yemen, Samir, in a dramatically ironic twist, is revealed as a mercenary selling explosives t...
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o Muslim extremists. But what is never completely clear throughout TRAITOR's numerous plot-twists is just where Horn's allegiances truly lie: is he an American spy infiltrating a Jihadist plot or a devout Muslim who has traded his sympathies with the West? When an arms sale runs afoul, Samir is jailed in a Yemeni prison where he befriends Omar (Said Taghmaoui), a ringleader of a terrorist organization that is being watched by the F.B.I. A bold prison break is hatched and the pair begins collaborating on a series of bombings throughout Europe. As Samir becomes embroiled in ever-escalating terror plots, it becomes clear that he is duplicitously playing both sides at growing danger to himself and the lives of innocent people. Cut with a breathless, war reportage-styled pace, TRAITOR is an action-packed, suspense-filled thriller whose seemingly equivocal ideological veneer can be summed up as: "In war, there are no winners."
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An undercover CIA agent within a terrorist cell is marked as a terrorist suspect by the FBI in Overture Films' upcoming thriller Traitor. Don Cheadle produces and stars in the film as the operative under Guy Pearce's investigation. Based on an idea by Steve Martin, the film is written and directed by Day After Tomorrow screenwriter Jeffrey Nachmanoff.

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Wanneer de recht naar het doel werkende FBI-agent Roy Clayton de leiding neemt in een onderzoek naar internationale samenzweringen, lijken alle sporen naar de voormalige U.S. Special Operations-officier Samir Horn te leiden. Het 'inter-agency task force' kijkt in deze zaak uit naar een ontmoeting met Carter, een veteraan van de CIA die blijkbaar zijn eigen agenda heeft en naar Max Archer, een bevriende FBI-agent. De 'task force' linkt Horn met een gevangenisontsnapping in Jemen, een bomaanslag in Nice en een overval in Londen. Geobsedeerd door het vinden van de waarheid, zoekt Clayton Horn over de hele wereld en ...
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dit terwijl de illustere en onvatbare ex-CIAer zich dieper en dieper ingraaft in een wereld van schaduwen en intriges.
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