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Deadline (1988)
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Add to a movie listDeadline is a 1988 British drama film made for television, directed by Richard Stroud and based on a novel and adapted for the screen by Tom Stacey. It stars John Hurt as an alcoholic Fleet Street journalist caught up in a coup on an island in the Persian Gulf, where the Emir's son and an enforcer attempt to depose his father.
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Dans un petit émirat (fictif) du golfe Persique, un journaliste fatigué du monde est pris dans un coup d'État où le fils de l'émir, sous l'influence d'un renégat politique, tente de renverser son père, le monarque au pouvoir. Des flashbacks sur la vie du journaliste nous montrent comment ses relations avec l'émir et une belle jeune femme se développent et s'épanouissent.Actors
John Hurt
(Granville Jones)
Imogen Stubbs
(Lady Romy Burton)
Julian Curry
(Stuart-Smith)
Roshan Seth
(The Emir of Hawa)
Ahmed Boulane
(Al-Bakr)
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