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The Stone Merchant (2006)
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Original name: Il mercante di pietre
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, UK
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
The Merchant (Harvey Keitel) is a Westerner. A merchant dealing in precious stones from Afganistan and Turkey. He's above suspicion. In truth, the "Stone Merchant" is a Christian convert into Islam. He's rich, cultured, fascinating. Leda (Jane March) is a successful woman who works as Head of the Public Relations for a big company. She's married to Alceo, a professor at the Sapienza University, specialized in the history of terrorist movements. Alceo is on a wheel chair. He lost his legs in the attack to the American Embassy in Nairobi in 1998. Shahid is a terrorist. Now he's planning an attack along the English Channel. Their lives, their destinies cross in Turkey, where Leda and Alceo are on holiday. And the plot will go on to Rome and Turin till the epilogue of the attack on the ferry boat.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, exciting, tense
Plot:
assassination attempt, danger, obsessive quest, politics, terrorism, manipulation, race against time, state affairs, against the rules, terrorist attack, fall in love, religions or cults, special agent, holiday, ferry, female nudity, adultery, infidelity, extramarital affair, dysfunctional marriage, unfaithfulness, unfaithful wife, cheating wife, empire, deadly ...
Time:
contemporary
Place:
middle east, cappadocia turkey, afghanistan, rome italy, turkey, europe
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