Power Play
Power Play (also known as Coup d'Etat, A State of Shock and Operation Overthrow) is a 1978 British-Canadian political thriller film directed by Martyn Burke and starring Peter O'Toole and David Hemmings. It was written by Burke and Edward N. Luttwak based on the latter's 1968 non-fiction strategy book Coup d'État: A Practical Handbook.
Plot
A small group of military officers frustrated by the corruption and brutality of a fictional contemporary European government decide that they must overthrow the current administration. But the coup's leader worries that there is a spy in their group.
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| author | Martyn Burke |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Europe |
| director | Martyn Burke |
| editor | John Victor-Smith |
| genre | political thriller |
| keywords | army officer extrajudicial killing kill military officer operational security operations security |
| musicBy | Ken Thorne |
| producer | Bob Cooper Ronald I. Cohen |
| publisher | Rank Film Distributors |
| theme | political thriller |