Our Kind of Traitor (2016) Directed by Susanna White
Thriller
aka: John le Carré's Our Kind of Traitor
Film Synopsis
Perry and Gail are an English couple who are enjoying a pleasant holiday
in Marrakesh when they meet Dima, a Russian millionaire. Both fall
prey to the Russian's seductive charm and in no time they come to regard
him as a friend. Neither suspects that he is in fact a member of the
Russian Mafia, his role being to launder money for the criminal organisation
he has sold his soul to. It so happens that Dima is eager to put his
criminal life behind him. After he and his family have received death
threats from rival gangsters, he wants out and believes he can make a fresh
start by furnishing the British secret services with valuable information.
This is why he needs Perry and Gail - to act as a go-between in his carefully
thought-out plan. Before they know it, the English couple are drawn
into Dima's scheme and find themselves lost in a dangerous maze of intrigue
that takes them all over Europe. Their only hope of getting out of
this hellish labyrinth alive is to ally themselves with a British agent whose
methods are far from orthodox...
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