Armed with only one word - Tenet - and fighting for the survival of the entire world, the Protagonist journeys through a twilight world of international espionage on a mission that will unfold in something beyond real time.
Practical Effects
Real plane crash, real inverted fight choreography.
Sound
Ludwig Göransson's score plays backwards and forwards.
Editing
Two timelines colliding in single shots.
Director
Christopher Nolan
John David Washington
Protagonist
Robert Pattinson
Neil
Elizabeth Debicki
Kat
Kenneth Branagh
Sator
Dimple Kapadia
Priya
Michael Caine
Crosby
Martin Donovan
Fay
Fiona Dourif
Wheeler
Yuri Kolokolnikov
Volkov
Himesh Patel
Mahir
Clémence Poésy
Barbara
Aaron Taylor-Johnson
Ives
Laurie Shepherd
Max
Anthony Molinari
Rohan
Juhan Ulfsak
Passenger
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Nolan crashed a real 747 into a building because it was cheaper than CGI. The plane was purchased and written off for the shot.
The 'Sator Square' is a real ancient Latin palindrome — the film's five locations (Opera, Oslo, etc.) spell out the square's letters, embedded with themes of time reversal and agricultural cycles.
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