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The Peacemaker is an action film and thriller film directed by Mimi Leder, starring George Clooney, Nicole Kidman, Marcel Iureș and Armin Mueller-Stahl. It was produced by Walter F. Parkes and Branko Lustig for DreamWorks, with Dietrich Lohmann as director of photography and Hans Zimmer as composer, and its main subject is terrorism. Filmed in the Czech Republic and New York City, and set in New York City, it was produced in the United States and released in 1997, running 118 minutes, in Russian and English. The film has been assessed using the Bechdel test and discussed in the source Women Make Film. Review scores include 5.9 out of 10, 46 percent and 43 out of 100. It is distributed by DreamWorks and Netflix.
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6.0When a train carrying atomic warheads mysteriously crashes in the former Soviet Union, a nuclear specialist discovers the accident is really part of a plot to cover up the theft of the weapons. Assigned to help her recover the missing bombs is a crack Special Forces Colonel.
Cast
- George Clooney as Lt. Col. Thomas Devoe
- Nicole Kidman as Dr. Julia Kelly
- Marcel Iureș as Dusan Gavrich
- Aleksandr Baluev as General Aleksandr Kodoroff
- Rene Medvešek as Vlado Mirich
- Armin Mueller-Stahl as Dimitri Vertikoff
Themes
- helicopter
- politics
- nuclear missile
- bridge
- train crash
- nuclear explosion
- train
- terrorism
- backpack
- military
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Mimi Leder
- Screenplay by
- Michael Schiffer
- Based on
- One Point Safe , by Andrew Cockburn and Leslie Redlich Cockburn
- Produced by
- Walter F. Parkes Branko Lustig
- Starring
- George Clooney Nicole Kidman Armin Mueller-Stahl
- Cinematography
- Dietrich Lohmann
- Edited by
- David Rosenbloom
- Music by
- Hans Zimmer
- Distributed by
- DreamWorks Distribution LLC , Universal Music & Video Distribution
- Release date
- September 26, 1997 ( 1997-09-26 )
- Running time
- 124 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Languages
- English Russian Serbo-Croatian
- Budget
- $50 million
- Box office
- $110.4 million
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- thriller film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Main subject
- terrorism
- Director
- Mimi Leder
- Cast member
- Jay Acovone
- Composer
- Hans Zimmer
- Producer
- Branko Lustig
- Production company
- DreamWorks
- Cinematographer
- Dietrich Lohmann
- Narrative location
- New York City
- Filming location
- New York City
- Duration
- 118
- FilmAffinity ID
- 993615
- Distribution format
- video on demand
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- publication date
- 1997-11-13
- title
- The Peacemaker
- distributed by
- Netflix
- described by source
- Women Make Film
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- different from
- Great Peacemaker
- review score
- 43/100
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Encyclopedic overview
The Peacemaker is a 1997 American political action thriller film starring George Clooney, Nicole Kidman, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Marcel Iureș and Aleksandr Baluev and directed by Mimi Leder (in her feature directorial debut). It is the first film distributed by DreamWorks Pictures. While the story takes place all over the world, it was shot primarily in Slovakia with some sequences filmed in New York City, Philadelphia and North Macedonia. The basis for the film was the 1997 book One Point Safe by Andrew and Leslie Cockburn, about the state of Russia's nuclear arsenal.
Plot
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