THE MAURITANIAN
by Kevin Macdonald
synopsis
A detainee at the U.S military's Guantanamo Bay detention center is held without charges for over a decade and seeks help from a defense attorney for his release.
international title: | The Mauritanian |
original title: | The Mauritanian |
country: | United Kingdom, United States |
year: | 2020 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Kevin Macdonald |
film run: | 129' |
release date: | ES 19/03/2021, FR 7/04/2021, NL 15/04/2021, DE 24/06/2021 |
screenplay: | Rory Haines, Sohrab Noshirvani, M.B. Traven |
cast: | Jodie Foster, Tahar Rahim, Shailene Woodley, Benedict Cumberbatch, Zachary Levi, Langley Kirkwood, Corey Johnson, Matthew Marsh, Saamer Usmani, David Fynn, Denis Ménochet |
cinematography by: | Alwin H. Kuchler |
art director: | Michael Carlin |
costumes designer: | Alexandra Byrne |
music: | Tom Hodge |
producer: | Adam Ackland, Michael Bronner, Leah Clarke, Benedict Cumberbatch, Christine Holder, Mark Holder, Beatriz Levin, Lloyd Levin, Branwen Prestwood Smith |
co-producer: | Donald Sabourin, Larry Siems, Mohamedou Slahi |
executive producer: | Michael Bloom, Rose Garnett, Micah Green, Robert A. Halmi, Ryan Heller, Zak Kilberg, Jim Reeve, Russell Smith, Daniel Steinman, Maria Zuckerman |
production: | BBC Films, Great Point Media, SunnyMarch, Wonder Street (US), 30WEST (US), Convergent Media (US), Topic Studios (US), Shadowplay Features (US) |
distributor: | STXinternational, Vértigo Films, Metropolitan Filmexport, Dutch FilmWorks, Tobis Film, Cinemundo |