The Black Pimpernel
2007 · Movie · 100 min. · Sweden
The story about Swedish ambassador in Chile - Harald Edelstam - and his heroic actions to protect the innocent people from the execution during and after the military coup on September 11th 1973. We travel with Edelstam during the terrible moments just after the coup and follows his never-ending fight for human rights, law and order. What drove him? And what price did he end up paying for his total commitment? Haunted by his own demons the we experiences on close hand how a womanizer desperately searches to find love again, a task only doable, if he can fight his own past and redeem himself. After saving hundreds - maybe even thousands - he is challenged once more, this time to save his newfound love from the death penalty issued by the regime. Another impossible task and a desperate chase against time. Based on a true story about a man, that did, what all of us only dreams of.
Direction Åsa Faringer · Ulf Hultberg
Cast Michael Nyqvist · Lumi Cavazos · Kate del Castillo · Lisa Werlinder · Carsten Norgaard · Daniel Giménez Cacho · Patrick Bergin · Luis Gnecco · Ramón Núñez · Rolando Garza · Gabriela Aguilera · Amanda Borgnon · Trinidad González · Pedro Vicuña · Carlos Morales · José Ignacio García · Edgardo Bruna · Sergio Madrid · Alvaro Uccelletti · Lasse Lunderskov · Claire Ross-Brown · Beatriz Doizi · Ramón González · Eduardo Paxeco · Francisco González · Jaime McManus · Lía Maldonado · Luis Corvalán · María E. Barrenechea · Paula Leoncini · Juan Pablo Quezada · Rodrigo Molina · Andrea Gaete · Millaray Andrade · Yerko Mitev · Ximena Farah · Michael Lunderskov · Sebastián Acevedo · Nicolás Matamala · Nicole Schonffeldt · Paula Alevar · Juan Francisco Echeverría · Rodrigo Escobar
Soundtrack Jacob Groth
Screenplay Bob Foss
Cinematography Dirk Brüel
Original title Svarta nejlikan (The Black Pimpernel)
6.5
153 votes (FilmAffinity)
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