Thirteen Days DVD 2000 Tizenhárom nap - Az idegháború / Directed by Roger Donaldson / Starring: Kevin Costner, Bruce Greenwood, Steven Culp, Dylan Baker / Historical political thriller film / Budapest film

UPC 5999544250000

MADE IN EU

REGION 2 PAL DVD

AUDIO: English 5.1, Hungarian 5.1

SUBTITLES: Hungarian

TOTAL RUNTIME: 147 MINUTES

English Summary:

Thirteen Days is a 2000 American historical political thriller film directed by Roger Donaldson. It dramatizes the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, seen from the perspective of the US political leadership. Kevin Costner stars as top White House assistant Kenneth P. O'Donnell, with Bruce Greenwood featured as President John F. Kennedy, Steven Culp as Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, and Dylan Baker as Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara.

While the film carries the same title as the 1969 book Thirteen Days by former Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, it is in fact based on the 1997 book, The Kennedy Tapes: Inside the White House During the Cuban Missile Crisis, by Ernest R. May and Philip D. Zelikow. It is the second docudrama made about the crisis, the first being 1974's The Missiles of October, which was based on Kennedy's book. The 2000 film contains some newly declassified information not available to the earlier production, but takes greater dramatic license, particularly in its choice of O'Donnell as protagonist.

For 13 days in October 1962, the whole world was on the verge of World War III. Millions watched intently as to what would be the end of the diplomatic, political, and military conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union that could easily have culminated in a total nuclear war. The Soviet Union is deploying nuclear missiles in Cuba, upsetting the fragile and by no means uninterrupted balance between it and the United States. There are two alternatives to solve the problem: the negotiating table or military intervention.

Hungarian Description:

1962 októberében 13 napon keresztül az egész világ a harmadik világháború küszöbén egyensúlyozott. Milliók figyelték feszülten, hogy mi lesz a vége annak az Egyesült Államok és a Szovjetunió között zajló diplomáciai, politikai és katonai konfliktusnak, amely könnyedén totális nukleáris háborúba torkollhatott volna. A Szovjetunió nukleáris rakétákat telepít Kubába, felborítva ezzel a közte és az Egyesült Államok között meglévő törékeny, és korántsem zavartalan egyensúlyt. A probléma megoldására két alternatíva létezik: a tárgyalóasztal, vagy a katonai beavatkozás.

Cast / Szereplők:

Kevin Costner as Special Assistant to the President Kenneth O'Donnell

Bruce Greenwood as President John F. Kennedy

Steven Culp as Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy

Stephanie Romanov as First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy

Dylan Baker as Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara

Frank Wood as National Security Advisor McGeorge Bundy

Kevin Conway as Chief of Staff of the USAF General Curtis LeMay, USAF

Pramod Kumar as United Nations Secretary General U Thant

Tim Kelleher as White House Counsel Ted Sorensen

Len Cariou as Former Secretary of State Dean Acheson

Charles Esten as U-2 pilot Major Rudolf Anderson, USAF

Olek Krupa as Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko

Lucinda Jenney as Helen O'Donnell, wife to Kenneth O'Donnell

Jack McGee as Richard J. Daley, Mayor of Chicago

Dakin Matthews as Arthur C. Lundahl

James Karen as George Ball

Caitlin Wachs as Kathy O'Donnell
Jon Foster as Kenny O'Donnell, Jr.