An interpol agent and an attorney are determined to bring one of the world's most powerful banks to justice. Uncovering money laundering, arms trading, and conspiracy to destabilize world governments, their investigation takes them from Berlin, Milan, New York and Istanbul. Finding themselves in a chase across the globe, their relentless tenacity puts their own lives at risk.
Direction
Tom Tykwer's Guggenheim shootout — 10 minutes of architectural chaos.
Cinematography
Frank Griebe makes beige conference rooms look genuinely menacing.
Director
Tom Tykwer
Clive Owen
Louis Salinger
Naomi Watts
Eleanor Whitman
Armin Mueller-Stahl
Wilhelm Wexler
Ulrich Thomsen
Jonas Skarssen
Brían F. O'Byrne
The Consultant
Patrick Baladi
Martin White
Jay Villiers
Francis Ehames
James Rebhorn
New York D.A.
Michel Voletti
Viktor Haas
Jack McGee
Detective Bernie Ward
Remy Auberjonois
Sam Purvitz
Tibor Feldman
Dr. Isaacson
Steven Randazzo
Al Moody
Nilaja Sun
Detective Gloria Hubbard
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Guggenheim refused to let them film inside, so production designer Uli Hanisch built a $3 million replica in Germany — the spiraling ramp was fully functional.
Released months after the 2008 financial collapse, audiences were too exhausted by real bank crimes to embrace fictional ones — explaining its box office flop despite Tykwer's Run Lola Run pedigree.
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