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Ulrich Mott is an eccentric and versatile social climber with grandiose plans to affect United States foreign policy. Encouraged in his attempts by his strategically chosen (and much older) wife, the well-connected journalist Elsa Brecht, Mott has a knack for making himself indispensable and impossible to ignore. The only one seemingly immune to his charms is Elsa's daughter Amanda, who might simply disapprove of her mother marrying a much younger man - or perhaps she senses something more sinister beneath the smooth-talking surface?Read moreLess
Ulrich Mott is an eccentric and versatile social climber with grandiose plans to affect United States foreign policy. Encouraged in his attempts by his strategically chosen (and much older) wife, the well-connected journalist Elsa Brecht, Mott has a knack for making himself indispensable and impossible to ignore. The only one seemingly immune to his charms is Elsa's daughter Amanda, who might simply disapprove of her mother marrying a much younger man - or perhaps she senses something more sinister beneath the smooth-talking surface?
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Ulrich Mott is an eccentric and versatile social climber with grandiose plans to affect United States foreign policy. Encouraged in his attempts by his strategically chosen (and much older) wife, the well-connected journalist Elsa Brecht, Mott has a knack for making himself indispensable and impossible to ignore. The only one seemingly immune to his charms is Elsa's daughter Amanda, who might simply disapprove of her mother marrying a much younger man - or perhaps she senses something more sinister beneath the smooth-talking surface?
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Christoph WaltzUlrich Mott
Annette BeningAmanda Brecht
Vanessa RedgraveElsa Brecht
Corey HawkinsDaniel Volker
Sergio Di ZioGordon Nichols
Noam JenkinsTalabani
David RealeWeatherford
Paulino NunesProsecutor Kirshner
Ron LeaDetective Reid
Laura de CarteretEleanor Price
Victoria SnowPeggy Mason
Saad SiddiquiZahariExplore the crew
- Director
- Christoph Waltz
- Screenplay
- David Auburn
- Producer
- Andrew Levitas
- Original Music Composer
- Lorne Balfe
- Editor
- Brett M. Reed
- Producer
- Brett Ratner
- Director of Photography
- Henry Braham
- Producer
- David Gerson
- Producer
- Brad Feinstein
- Producer
- John Cheng