Film Statistics
Director: Tom Tykwer
Writer: Eric Singer
Genre: Action, Thriller
Release Date: February 13, 2009
MPAA Rating: R
Runtime: 1hr. 58min.
Distributor: Columbia Pictures
Status: On Blu-ray & DVD

Armin Mueller-Stahl, Clive Owen, Naomi Watts, Ulrich Thomsen, Brían F. O’Byrne

In The International, a gripping thriller, Interpol Agent Louis Salinger (Clive Owen) and Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Eleanor Whitman (Naomi Watts) are determined to bring to justice one of the world’s most powerful banks. Uncovering myriad and reprehensible illegal activities, Salinger and Whitman follow the money from Berlin to Milan to New York to Istanbul. Finding themselves in a high-stakes chase across the globe, their relentless tenacity puts their own lives at risk as their targets will stop at nothing – even murder – to continue financing terror and war. Directed by Tom Tykwer (Run Lola Run) from an original screenplay written by Eric Singer, The International is being shot on location in Germany and throughout Europe.

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- The film was inspired by the BCCI, or Bank of Credit & Commerce International, banking scandal, which took place throughout the 80s and into the early 90s.

- After badly received previews, the film was pushed back from its August 2008 release date to February 2009 to allow reshoots to turn it into more of an action film – only for the film to be released in the middle of the worst banking crisis in US history, undermining the film’s premise of an unstoppable bank dictating political policy.

- In interviews promoting the film, Owen insisted he was not afraid of badgers despite previous comments to he contrary.

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