the interpreter is an American film of Sydney Pollack left in 2005, with in the main roles Nicole Kidman and Sean Penn.

Synopsis

Sylvia Broome is interprets with the seat of UNO, with New York. Whereas it passes in its cabin of work, it surprises a conversation in Ku, dialect African which it is one of rare to know. Understanding that it is about the planning of an assassination aiming at the president of the Republic of the Matobo, during the visit envisaged of this one with the the United States a few days later, it informs the police force. An investigator of the FBI, Tobin Keller, is affected with the investigation. The relations which it maintains with Sylvia make him test of the feelings for this woman that nobody really knows. Gradually, he discovers certain information on his at the very least disconcerting past: Sylvia with the dual nationality of the United States and Matobo, where it grew…

Data sheet

• Title: the Interpreter
• original Title: To interpret
• Realization: Sydney Pollack
• Scenario: Martin Stellman, Brian Ward
• Music: James Newton Howard (additional: Mel Wesson and Clay Duncan)
• Comings out date: April 4th, 2005 (First with Sydney, Australia), April 22nd 2005 (the USA), June 1st 2005 (Belgium, French-speaking Switzerland), June 8th 2005 (France)
• Lasted: 120 minutes (2h00)

Distribution

• Nicole Kidman: Silvia Broome
• Sean Penn: Tobin Keller
• Catherine Keener: Dowry Woods
• Jesper Christensen: The Nile Lud
• Yvan Attal: Philippe
• Earl Cameron: Zuwanie
• George Harris: Kuman-Kuman
• Michael Wright: Marcus
• Clyde Kusatsu : police chief Lee Wu
• Eric Keenleyside: Rory Robb
• Hugo Speer: Simon Broome
• Maz Jobrani: Mo
• Yusuf Gatewood: Doug
• Curtiss Cook : Ajene Xola
• Byron Utley : Jean Gamba

Around film

• the Republic of Matobo is a fictitious State strongly evoking the Zimbabwe: the flag of the first, visible in film, is strongly similar to that of the second; the emblem of MDC (authenticates Zimbabwean party) is held up by the demonstrators in film; Edmond Zuwanie, president fictitious of Matobo, strongly resembles Robert Mugabe, real president of Zimbabwe, as a former chief of guerilla become dictator.
• the Ku is an artificial African dialect created especially for film.
• the Interpreter is the first film to have received the authorizations to film the interior of the building of UNO.
• Nicole Kidman pronounces some sentences in bad French in the original version.
• One sees Nicole Kidman writing left hand.

See too

• '' the Interpreter '' on Internet Movie Database

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