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Question 1: What language does Nicole learn for the film The Interpreter ?
Question 2: What is the name of the famous building where the film was shot, and what was special about the permission to use it?
Question 3: Name one other 'Nicole' movie The Interpreter director Sydney Pollack has been involved with ?
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The Interpreter (2005)
World Premiere April 4, 2005 Sydney Opera House, Australia
USA Premiere April 19, 2005 Tribecca Film Festival
Click any photo on page for its larger version. More photos.
Photos courtesy of Universal Studios. Official site for The Interpreter
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Trailer: Quicktime(9MB (Right click then select Save As) )
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Sydney Pollack
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Sydney Pollack has directed many famous movies including Out of Africa, The Firm, Tootsie, They Shoot Horses Don't They?, Three Days of the Condor, Absence of Malice, Sabrina. He is not only the Director but also the Executive Producer and has a part in the film.
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Nicole Kidman as Silvia Broome  |
Nicole plays brilliant and worldly Silvia Broome, a typically anonymous United Nations (U.N.) interpreter who accidentally overhears a plot to kill an African head of State putting her at the centre of an international crisis. Prior to her work as interpreter Silvia had studied music in Johannesberg, philosophy at the Sorbonne, and linguistics in Spain. Dark, terror-stricken events in her past lead her to doubt the safety of the world. |
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Sean Penn as FBI Agent Tobin Keller
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Sean Penn plays the Federal Agent Tobin Keller. Tobin is a sceptical man of the 'shoot first, ask questions later' variety who is assigned to protect Silvia (Nicole) and becomes increasingly curious about the secrets in her past. |
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Catherine Keener as Dot Woods
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Catherine Keener plays Dot Woods, the tough federal agent who has 'seen it all' - low-key, world-weary, with an acerbic sense of humour she wields as much as her gun and badge. |
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Yvan Attal, a French/Israeli actor, plays Phillippe who is Silvia (Nicole Kidman) Broome's mysterious African friend. |
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Jesper Christensen as Nils Lud |
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Danish actor Jesper Christensen makes his American film debut as Nils Lud, the suave head of Matobo security. |
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Earl Cameron as President Edmund Zuwanie |
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British actor Earl Cameron plays the treacherous dictator of Matobo, President Edmund Zuwanie whose life is threatened. |
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Story |
Shot on location in Manhattan and Southern Africa, The Interpreter is the first
motion picture in history to receive inside access to the United Nations’ headquarters
(which is officially international territory) in New York.
The escalating events begin when African-born U.N. translator Silvia Broome
(Kidman) alleges that she has overheard a death threat against an African head of state, spoken in a rare dialect few people other than Silvia can understand. With the words “The Teacher will never leave this room alive,” in an instant, Silvia’s life is turned upside down as she becomes a hunted target of the killers. Placed under the protection of federal agent Tobin Keller (Penn), Silvia’s world only grows more nightmarish. As Keller digs deeper into his eyewitness’ past and her secretive world of global connections, the more suspicious he becomes that she herself might be involved in the conspiracy. With every step of the way, he finds more reasons to mistrust her.
Is Sylvia a victim? A suspect? Or something else entirely? And can Tobin,
coping with his own personal heartache, keep her safe? Though they must depend on one another, Silvia and Tobin couldn’t be more different. Silvia’s strengths are words,
diplomacy and the subtleties of meaning, while Tobin is all about instinct, action and
reading into the most primal human behaviours. Now, as the danger of a major assassination on U.S. soil grows and Silvia’s life hangs in the balance, Silvia and Tobin play out a gripping dance of evasion and revelation that keeps them both guessing as they race to stop a terrifying international crisis before it’s too late.
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