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Marc Forster directs. The screenplay was written by Neal Purvis & Robert Wade and Paul Haggis. The crew also includes production designer Dennis Gassner, director of photography Roberto Schaefer, editors Matt Chesse and Rick Pearson, and second-unit director Dan Bradley.
MATHIEU AMALRIC, one of France’s leading film stars, is best known for his roles as Jean-Dominique Bauby in Julian Schnabel’s award-winning film The Diving Bell and the Butterfly and as French informant Louis in Steven Spielberg’s Munich. Last year he won the César for Best Actor for his role in Arnaud Desplechin’s internationally acclaimed comedy Kings and Queen. Amalric had previously won the César for Most Promising Actor for his role in Desplechin’s My Sex Life.
Amalric began his acting career in 1984 with a small role in Otar Iosseliani’s Les favoris de la lune. He then worked as Louis Malle’s assistant director on Au Revoir Les Enfants. Since then, as an actor he has worked with many notable directors, including André Téchiné, Olivier Assayas, Jean-Claude Biette, and the Larrieu brothers. His recent films include Desplechin’s Un conte de Noël, Claude Miller’s Un Secret, Nicolas Klotz’s Heart Beat Detector, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi’s Actrices, and Vincent Dieutre’s Fragments sur le grace. He also appeared in Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette. Amalric has also written and directed several films, including Wimbledon Stage and, most recently, the documentary short Let Them Grow Up Here. This year he is directing Tournée, a film about American burlesque dancers touring France.
OLGA KURYLENKO recently appeared alongside Timothy Olyphant in Hitman and Elijah Wood in Paris, je t’aime. She also played leading roles in Eric Barbier’s thriller The Serpent and Diane Bertrand’s The Ring Finger, for which she won Best Actress at the 2006 Brooklyn International Film Festival. She recently appeared in Tyranny, directed by John Beck Hofman.
On French television, the multilingual Kurylenko appeared in the miniseries “Suspectes” and the drama “The Good Luck Charm.”
During her career as a leading European model, Kurylenko appeared in numerous advertising campaigns, including for Kenzo, Helena Rubinstein, and Just Cavalli. She also appeared on the covers of American Glamour and the French editions of Elle, Madame Figaro, and Marie Claire.
GEMMA ARTERTON graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) and made her screen debut alongside Dame Maggie Smith and David Walliams in Stephen Poliakoff’s Capturing Mary for the BBC. She currently stars in the successful British comedy St. Trinian’s. Arterton also recently made her stage debut as Rosalind in “Love’s Labour’s Lost” at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre.
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