Based on author John le Carré's 2008 political novel the story follows a near-dead half-Chechen, half-Russian man who arrives in Hamburg's Islamic community desperate for help and looking to recover his late Russian father’s ill-gotten fortune. As a British private banker and a young female lawyer try to help, the head of a covert German spy unit (Philip Seymour Hoffman) must figure out the truth about this new arrival.
The story is loosely based on Murat Kurnaz, a Turkish citizen and legal German resident seized by American authorities and sent to the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, in Cuba before being released without charge in 2006.
Wright replaces the previously cast Rachel McAdams.
"The American" helmer Anton Corbijn is directing from a script by Andrew Bovell.
Gail Egan, Andrea Calderwood, Malte Grunert, and Stephen Cornwall and Simon Cornwell will produce.
Production begins in Hamburg this September
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