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The Little Drummer Girl
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Synopsis
Based on John Le Carré's novel by the same name, this story about Charlie (Diane Keaton) a female double agent working between the Palestinians and Israelis, loses some of the excitement and in-depth characterization engendered by the long novel -- mainly because the novel is hard to capture in a two-hour filmed format. But the action itself carries viewers along as Charlie ends up leaving England and her job as an actress in a Brit repertory company to meet Kurtz (Klaus Kinski) in Greece who recruits her as a spy. Charlie later has to handle her own emotions when she gets romantically involved with her Israeli contact (Yorgo Voyagis), though events move her quickly along to a Palestinian military camp near Beirut. Once she has passed herself off as a reliable Palestinian agent and completed her military training at the camp, she goes to Germany to hunt down a Palestinian terrorist (Sami Frey). Filled with a multitude of characters and locations, not to mention camera shots, the intensity of this story is dissipated somewhat by literally and figuratively covering a lot of territory, though the thread of the story itself is never lost. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide

Cast

Eli Danker Litvak
Sami Frey Khalil
Klaus Kinski Kurtz
Anna Massey Chairlady
David Suchet Mesterbein
Yorgo Voyagis Joseph
Thorley Walters Ned Quilley
Dana Wheeler-Nicholson Katrin
Michael Cristofer Tayeh
Diane Keaton Charlie
Robert Pereno Rossino
Moti Shirin Michel

Production Crew

Ariel Roshko Art Director
Geoffrey Tozer Art Director
Mike Karapiperis Art Director
John Le Carré Book Author
Wolfgang Treu Cinematographer
Dave Grusin Composer (Music Score)
Ille Sievers Costume Designer
Kristi Zea Costume Designer
Rochelle Zaltzman Costume Designer
George Roy Hill Director
William H. Reynolds Editor
Patrick J. Kelly Executive Producer
Don French First Assistant Director
Daniel Patrick Kelley Producer
Robert L. Crawford Producer
Henry Bumstead Production Designer
John Le Carré Screenwriter
Loring Mandel Screenwriter
Michael Moore Second Unit Director
Sylvester Levay Songwriter
Year: 1984
Runtime: 130
Country: USA
MPAA Rating: R
Category: Feature

Genre
Spy Film

Produced by
Warner Brothers