Deadline (1987 film)
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Director Nathaniel Gutman Initial release 1987 Country Germany | 5.2/10 IMDb Genre Action, Drama, War Duration Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Writer Hanan Peled (screenplay), Hanan Peled (story) Cinematography Thomas Mauch, Amnon Salomon Genres Action Film, Indie film, Drama, World cinema, Political thriller, Political drama Cast Christopher Walken (Don Stevens), Hywel Bennett (Mike Jessop), Marita Marschall (Linda Larsen)Similar movies Circle of Deceit (1981), The Ambassador (1984), Rosebud (1975), Munich (2005), The Quiet American (2002) Tagline Sometimes a hero doesn't carry a gun. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Deadline is a 1987 war/drama film about a journalist amidst the Lebanese Civil War who is set up and fed false information. The film was directed by Nathaniel Gutman. Christopher Walken stars as main role, "ace reporter" Don Stevens. It was shot in Israel and Christopher Walken won the Magnolia Award for "Best Actor" at the Shanghai Television Festival. It was released in some countries under the title Witness in the War Zone.
Plot
Ace Reporter Don Stevens (Christopher Walken) is an American journalist who goes to Beirut, Lebanon during the Lebanese Civil War. He stays in a hotel with English journalist Mike Jessop. He is promised an interview with a top PLO leader, Palestinian Yassin Abu-Riadd (Amos Lavi). However, this proves to be a set-up and he is duped into interviewing an impostor who claims the PLO are prepared to negotiate peacefully.
Outraged by this deception, Stevens becomes determined to find out the truth. In this quest he is helped by a Scandinavian doctor, Linda, who it emerges is Yassin's estranged girlfriend. Along the way, Stevens is hindered by everyone around him: The PLO threaten him, the Phalangists arrest him and the Israelis ignore him. Tricked and beaten, he gradually uncovers a murder plot, double agents, the bombing of the Phalangists headquarters and, most terrifying of all, a plan to massacre hundreds of civilians. In a story that takes the lid off events in Lebanon, Don Stevens becomes a reluctant hero, and in doing so, gets the scoop of a lifetime.
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