The Little Drummer Girl - DVD

Palestinian intelligence says shes loyal to their cause. Israeli counterintelligence says shes bright creative underused romantic and a liar. Academy Award winner Diane Keaton stars as Charlie a repertory actress and Palestinian sympathizer who plays the role of and for her life when shes thrust onto the center stage of international espionage. Klaus Kinski and Yorgo Voyagis costar as shrewd Israeli operatives who plot to use Charlie as bait to capture an elusive Palestinian terrorist Sami Frey. Director George Roy Hill masterfully arranges the pieces of this cloakanddagger puzzle based on John le Carrs bestseller into a dazzling thriller racing full tilt through London Munich Athens Jerusalem and Beirut. March to the enthralling beat of The Little Drummer Girl. Screen adaptation of John Le Carres bestseller about a proPalestinian actress who gets recruited to impersonate an Israeli agent and gets caught in the world of terrorists. Based on John Le Carr s novel by the same name this story about Charlie Diane Keaton a female double agent working between the Palestinians and Israelis loses some of the excitement and indepth characterization engendered by the long novel mainly because the novel is hard to capture in a twohour filmed format. But the action itself carries viewers along as Charlie ends up leaving England and her job as an actress in a Brit repertory company to meet Kurtz Klaus Kinski in Greece who recruits her as a spy. Charlie later has to handle her own emotions when she gets romantically involved with her Israeli contact Yorgo Voyagis though events move her quickly along to a Palestinian military camp near Beirut. Once she has passed herself off as a reliable Palestinian agent and completed her military training at the camp she goes to Germany to hunt down a Palestinian terrorist Sami Frey. Filled with a multitude of characters and locations not to mention camera shots the intensity of this story is dissipated somewhat by literally and figuratively covering a lot of territory though the thread of the story itself is never lost. Eleanor Mannikka Rovi. Genre: Action Adventure. Release Date: 7 September 2010. Directed By: George Roy Hill. Rated: R. Studio: WHV Archive WHVA . Running Time: 130. Region: 0. Display: Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV. Audio: Dolby Digital Mono English. Discs: 1. Format: NTCS. Cast: Albert MosesGreen Grocer Anna MasseyChairlady Avi KeidarRaoul Ben LevineDimitri Bill NighyAl Dana WheelerNicholsonKatrin Danni RothOded David SuchetMesterbein Diane KeatonCharlie Dieter AugustinFreiburg City Official Dor ZweigenbomUdi Doron NesherDavid Eli DankerLitvak Elisabeth NeumannViertelMrs. Minkel Gawn GraingerActor Heinz WeissRed Cross Irene MarotPam Jeff LesterAmerican Jonathan SagallTeddy Jony Arbid Julian FirthYoung Man Juliano Mer KhamisJulio Klaus KinskiKurtz Michael CristoferTayeh Michael Graham CoxDonaldSoldier Moti ShirinMichel Noam AlmazGabriel Ori LevyLenny Peter CapellSchwili Philipp MoogAaron Ren KolldehoffInspector Robert PerenoRossino Rolf BeckerRed Cross Rowena CooperMiss Bach Sami FreyKhalil Sebastian Graham JonesDirector Shimon FinkelProf. Minkel Shlomit HagoelRose Shosh MarcianoRachel Smadar BrenerToby Thorley WaltersNed Quilley Yorgo VoyagisJoseph Yossi WerzanskyBen Ami. Crew: Art Director: Ariel Roshko Art Director: Geoffrey Tozer Art Director: Mike Karapiperis Cinematographer: Wolfgang Treu Composer Music Score: Dave Grusin Director: George Roy Hill Producer: Daniel Patrick Kelley Producer: Robert L. Crawford Screenwriter: Loring Mandel. Extras: DvdRWs R Clr Dvd Mod. Dimensions: 7.5L x 0.5H x 5.4W.