Frente a Frente com o Inimigo

Frente a Frente com o Inimigo (2009)

Endgame

Enormes manifestações públicas desencadeiam uma onda de violência por toda a Africa do Sul. Uma verdadeira guerra civil esta prestes a romper, entre a minoria branca que governa e comanda o sistema de Apartheid e a maioria da população negra. A estabilidade do país não é a única ameaça, o interesse de inúmeras companhias estrangeiras está em jogo, especialmente a da Consolidated Gold. Comandada por um inglês, sua estratégia é simples: enviar em segredo o relações públicas da empresa Michael Young (Jonny Lee Miller) para espionar as conversas entre os rebeldes e os representantes das minorias brancas. Colocando sua integridade moral e física em risco, Young consegue envolver o líder do Congresso Nacional Africano, em uma trama de intrigas e mentiras forçando um renomado professor de filosofia, William Esterhuyse (William Hurt) a ajudar se infiltrando no circulo de amizades do líder do Congresso.

Data de estreia
2009-01-18
TMDB
5.9 / 10 (51)
Duração
1 h 49 min
Géneros
Crime, Drama
Realizador
Pete Travis

Elenco

Curiosidades

Endgame is a 2009 British film directed by Pete Travis from a script by Paula Milne, based upon the book The Fall of Apartheid by Robert Harvey. The film is produced by Daybreak Pictures and reunites Travis with Vantage Point actor William Hurt. It also stars Chiwetel Ejiofor, Jonny Lee Miller, and Mark Strong. The film dramatises the final days of apartheid in South Africa. It was filmed at locations in Reading in England and Cape Town, South Africa in the first half of 2008 and was completed in December that year.

Production

The film has its roots in a discussion between Daybreak Pictures executive producer David Aukin and former Director-General of the BBC Greg Dyke; when Dyke told Aukin that he wanted to make a documentary about the secret talks that ended apartheid, Aukin suggested turning it into a drama instead. Aukin had previously produced the acclaimed political drama The Government Inspector.

Aukin and his production partner Hal Vogel contacted Paula Milne to write the script. She spent 18 months on the screenplay and researched the history of the talks by speaking to Thabo Mbeki and Michael Young in South Africa. Pete Travis, director of Omagh (2004) and Vantage Point (2008), was sent the script by Milne.

Location scouting in South Africa was done in January 2008. Rehearsals began on 14 April 2008 and scenes set in the UK were filmed for the rest of the month at a large country house near Reading, Berkshire. The production moved to Cape Town in May, where location filming was done for six weeks. Production wrapped in August. Martin Phipps composed the film soundtrack. The final cut of the film was completed on 24 December 2008.

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