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Red Sparrow
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2018 film by Francis Lawrence
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6.5Prima ballerina Dominika Egorova faces a bleak and uncertain future after she suffers an injury that ends her career. She soon turns to Sparrow School, a secret intelligence service that trains exceptional young people to use their minds and bodies as weapons. Dominika emerges as the most dangerous Sparrow after completing the sadistic training process. As she comes to terms with her new abilities, she meets a CIA agent who tries to convince her that he is the only person she can trust.
Cast
- Jennifer Lawrence as Dominika Egorova
- Joel Edgerton as Nathaniel "Natan" Nash
- Matthias Schoenaerts as Vanya Egorov
- Charlotte Rampling as Matron
- Jeremy Irons as Vladimir Korchnoi
- Ciarán Hinds as Alexei Zyuganov
Themes
- central intelligence agency (cia)
- sexual abuse
- budapest, hungary
- based on novel or book
- self sacrifice
- spy
- patriotism
- seduction
- training
- double agent
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Francis Lawrence
- Screenplay by
- Justin Haythe
- Based on
- Red Sparrow , by Jason Matthews
- Produced by
- Peter Chernin David Ready Jenno Topping Steven Zaillian
- Starring
- Jennifer Lawrence Joel Edgerton Matthias Schoenaerts Charlotte Rampling Mary-Louise Parker Jeremy Irons Ciarán Hinds
- Cinematography
- Jo Willems
- Edited by
- Alan Edward Bell
- Music by
- James Newton Howard
- Production company
- Chernin Entertainment
- Distributed by
- 20th Century Fox
- Release dates
- February 15, 2018 ( 2018-02-15 ) ( Newseum ) March 2, 2018 ( 2018-03-02 ) (United States )
- Running time
- 140 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Languages
- English , Russian
- Budget
- $69 million
- Box office
- $151.6 million
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Encyclopedic overview
Red Sparrow is a 2018 American spy thriller film directed by Francis Lawrence and written by Justin Haythe, based on the 2013 novel of the same name by Jason Matthews. The film stars Jennifer Lawrence, Joel Edgerton, Matthias Schoenaerts, Charlotte Rampling, Mary-Louise Parker, Jeremy Irons, and Ciarán Hinds. It tells the story of a former-ballerina-turned-Russian intelligence officer, who is sent to make contact with a CIA officer in the hope of discovering the identity of a mole.
Matthews, a former member of the CIA, advised the production on the depiction of spying. Based on historic Soviet sexpionage and contemporary Russian use of kompromat, filming took place in Hungary, Slovakia and Austria.
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