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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Classical in form, contemporary, grave and cool.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
- sparerichly built
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Cast
- 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
Crew
- Christoph WaltzDirector
- David AuburnScreenplay
- Henry BrahamDirector of Photography
- Lorne BalfeOriginal Music Composer
- Brett M. ReedEditor
- Andrew LevitasProducer
- John ChengProducer
- David GersonProducer
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