The Osterman Weekend DVD 1983 / Directed by Sam Peckinpah / Starring: Rutger Hauer, Dennis Hopper, Burt Lancaster, John Hurt

UPC 5999545561631

REGION 2 PAL DVD

MADE IN HUNGARY

AUDIO: English 5.1, Hungarian 5.1

Subtitles: Hungarian

TOTAL RUNTIME: 110 minutes

English Summary:

The Osterman Weekend is a 1983 American suspense thriller film directed by Sam Peckinpah, based on the novel of the same name by Robert Ludlum. The film stars Rutger Hauer, John Hurt, Burt Lancaster, Dennis Hopper, Meg Foster, Helen Shaver, Chris Sarandon and Craig T. Nelson. It was Peckinpah's final film before his death in 1984.

CIA director Maxwell Danforth watches a recording of agent Laurence Fassett and his wife having sex. When Fassett goes into the bathroom to have a shower, two KGB assassins enter the bedroom and kill his wife. The CIA had in fact sanctioned her killing. Fassett, unaware of his employer's involvement, was consumed by grief and rage. He hunted the assassins, eventually uncovering a Soviet spy network known as Omega.

Three of the top agents in the Omega network are Bernard Osterman, a television producer who knows martial arts; Richard Tremayne, a plastic surgeon; and stock trader Joseph Cardone. Rather than arrest the three members, which would alarm the KGB, Fasset proposes to the CIA director that they turn one of them to the side of the West in order to unravel the entire network more efficiently. Fassett sees an opportunity in John Tanner, a controversial television journalist who is highly critical of government abuses of power. Tanner has been close friends with the three agents since all four were at Berkeley together, and Fassett believes Tanner can successfully turn one of them.

Hungarian Summary:

Tanner, egy tévéadó hírszerkesztőségének vezetője évente hétvégi találkozóra invitálja régi barátait. Az összejövetel előtt felkeresi őt a CIA ügynöke, aki azt állítja, hogy Tanner barátai KGB-ügynökök, és segítségét kéri a leleplezésükhöz. Tanner hosszas vívódás után beleegyezik a dologba: a hétvégi összejövetel véres leszámolásba torkollik. Az egyetlen életben maradt barát feltárja az igazságot: ők nem keleti ügynökök, hanem adóellenőrök. 

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