The Amateur
The Amateur is a 1981 Canadian crime thriller film directed by Charles Jarrott and written by Robert Littell and Diana Maddox, based on Littell's 1981 novel of the same name. It stars John Savage, Christopher Plummer, and Marthe Keller.
Plot
When his fiancée is murdered by terrorists, a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) cryptographer named Charles Heller blackmails his superiors into sending him on a field assignment into Czechoslovakia to assassinate those responsible. Just as he enters the field, the CIA locates the stolen material he had been using to blackmail the agency, eliminating their need to cooperate with him. So he is behind the Iron Curtain, inadequately trained, and without support.
More details
| author | Robert Littell |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | United States of America |
| director | Charles Jarrott |
| editor | Stephan Fanfara |
| events | terrorism |
| genre | crime political thriller |
| keywords | ambush bona fides central intelligence agency cia cryptographer czechoslovakia double agent embarrass intelligence agency iron curtain kill murder safe house terrorist west |
| musicBy | Kenneth Wannberg |
| producer | Garth H. Drabinsky Joel B. Michaels |
| productionCompany | Balkan Productions Tiberius Film Productions |
| publisher | 20th Century Fox Pan-Canadian Film Distributors |
| recordedAt | Toronto |
| theme | political thriller spy terrorism vigilante |