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Justin Quayle is a low-level British diplomat who has always gone about his work very quietly, not causing any problems. But after his radical wife Tessa is killed he becomes determined to find out why, thrusting himself into the middle of a very dangerous conspiracy.
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Credits
director
Fernando Meirelles
costume design
Odile Dicks-Mireaux
producer
Henning Molfenter
Simon Channing Williams
Thierry Potok
Tracey Seaward
production company
Blue Sky Films
Blue Sky Films
Epsilon Motion Pictures
Focus Features
Potboiler Productions
Scion Films
Studio Babelsberg
UK Film Council
production design
Mark Tildesley
screenplay
Jeffrey Caine
Duration
02:09:00