Scott Anderson
The Hunting Party
TV-reporteren Simon Hunt og hans kameramann, Duck, har arbeidet i verdens heteste krigssoner: fra Bosnia til Irak, fra Somalia til El Salvador. Sammen har de dukket for kuler, levert inn detaljerte rapporter og vunnet priser. En grusom dag i en bosnisk by endrer alt...
The Last Spy
When the CIA discourages spymaster Peter Sichel to write his memoirs, and a heavily redacted manuscript is returned to him, the disgruntled 100-year-old is ready to tell his story – unredacted. In “The Last Spy”, Sichel recounts and reflects, with wit and wisdom, on the many lives he has lived. Born in Mainz in 1922 into a wealthy German Jewish wine family, Peter leads a privileged life. His world is turned upside down, as soon as Hitler comes to power. For the first time Peter experiences the true meaning of antisemitism when the family is forced to flee from Mainz. After a long trouble-filled journey, living from hand to mouth as refugees, the Sichel family finally makes it to the United States. Peter volunteers for the US army as soon as America enters the war. He is quickly singled out for the newly created Office of Strategic Services (OSS), America’s first clandestine intelligence service. Peter becomes a whiz at recruiting German prisoners of war and turning them into spies. In spy circles he is known as the “Wunderkind”. The war ends as Peter’s unit overruns Dachau concentration camp. The horrors of the Holocaust are forever imprinted on his mind and put a damper on the victory. Recognized as one of the best spymasters at the age of twenty-two, his superiors ask him to remain in Berlin as the head of the OSS during the allied occupation. True to form Peter is the first to discover that the intentions of Russia, America’s former ally, are unfriendly. He reports his findings to Washington and rings in the Cold War! - Now he must work against the new enemy, the Soviet Russia. He is asked to establish spy networks all over East Germany – many of his agents are former Nazis. By 1947, the OSS becomes the CIA with Peter as the station chief in Berlin. He engineers a massive clandestine operation which reveals that, while the Soviets are consolidating their control over Eastern Europe, they have no intention to march westward. The Iron Curtain is frozen in place. Peter has earned his stars and is transferred to Washington. By now Washington and Moscow are dead locked in a nuclear arms race. The Cold War enters a new phase. The Eisenhower administration is turning the CIA into to an action-oriented agency. Peter is promoted to Head of Operations for Eastern Europe, working directly under the CIA Director Allen Dulles. Rather than containing the Soviets, Dulles wants to roll them back. CIA “freedom fighters” are parachuted by the hundreds into Eastern Europe to cause internal insurrections. Peter warns that no freedom fighter would ever be able to penetrate Soviet security. His intelligence is ignored – all freedom fighters die. The Cold War turns hot. Throughout 1950s, the CIA actively begins to overthrow democratic leaders around the world whom they label as Communists, a claim Peter knows to be untrue. His frustration grows. Unnecessary deaths don’t sit well with him. In turn, Peter’s internal criticism of these CIA operations doesn’t sit well with some of his colleagues. A report is filed against him, accusing Peter of being a Soviet spy. An FBI investigation is mounted. Although Peter is cleared of all charges, he is sent far away to work as CIA station chief in Hong Kong. In Asia, Peter becomes quickly embroiled in the CIA overthrow attempt of the Indonesian President Sukarno. It’s a disaster. But there are more to come. In 1959, the CIA has another bright idea, the parachuting of National Chinese “freedom fighters” into Communist China, the exact replica of the operations that had failed miserably in Eastern Europe. Having fought alongside the Americans against the evil of Nazism, having genuinely believed in the American democratic ideals, Peter comes to realize that he no longer wants to be associated with an organization that would trample on those ideals. In 1960, Peter leaves the CIA. - Is that the end of him? – Of course not.
Triage
Mark og David er bestevenner og krigsfotografer. De drar avgårde på oppdrag i Kurdistan, men der er bare Mark som kommer hjem igjen. Ingen vet hvor David er, og Mark vil ikke minnes hva som har hendt.
Vacancy 2: The First Cut
De forventer seg bare en natt med harde senger og et stygt interiør når Caleb, hans sensuelle forlovede Jessica og hans sarkastiske bestevenn Tanner, sjekker inn på Meadow View Inn. De aner ikke at det ikke bare er nok et øde motell, men en fæl felle hvor gjester blir brutalt torturert og drept, mens den sadistiske galningen Mr. Smith og hans grådige medsammensvorne filmer de grusomme ugjerningene for å få penger. De tre unge vennene er fanget i en dødelig gjemmelek, og må kjempe for å overleve.
Vacancy
En klassisk spenningsfilm i samme stil som Alfred Hitchcock med Luke Wilson og Kate Beckinsale i hovedrollene. Når David (Luke Wilson) og Amy Fox (Kate Beckinsale) sin bil havarerer midt ute i ødemarka, er de nødt til å tilbringe natta i det eneste motellet i flere mils omkrets med kun tv-en som selskap. Men de oppdager snart at lavbudsjettsgrøsserne som de finner på rommet, ble filmet i det selvsamme rommet som de befinner seg i. De skjulte kameraene er nå fokusert på dem idet de fanges i rom, krypkjellere og underjordiske tunneler. David og Amy må kjempe for å komme seg ut i live før den som sitter og ser på kan fullføre sitt nyeste mesterverk.
Vacancy
En klassisk spenningsfilm i samme stil som Alfred Hitchcock med Luke Wilson og Kate Beckinsale i hovedrollene. Når David (Luke Wilson) og Amy Fox (Kate Beckinsale) sin bil havarerer midt ute i ødemarka, er de nødt til å tilbringe natta i det eneste motellet i flere mils omkrets med kun tv-en som selskap. Men de oppdager snart at lavbudsjettsgrøsserne som de finner på rommet, ble filmet i det selvsamme rommet som de befinner seg i. De skjulte kameraene er nå fokusert på dem idet de fanges i rom, krypkjellere og underjordiske tunneler. David og Amy må kjempe for å komme seg ut i live før den som sitter og ser på kan fullføre sitt nyeste mesterverk.