The East (2013)

Directed by

Zal Batmanglij

Genre

drama film, thriller film

Country

United Kingdom, United States

Runtime

1h 56m

Rated

PG-13

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 867 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An intelligence agent goes undercover to infiltrate an anarchist group that targets corrupt corporations. She starts to question her own beliefs as she gets closer to the group's members.

tensesuspensefulmoralgrittythoughtfulslow-burndarkurgent

What happens

The East is a 2013 thriller film directed by Zal Batmanglij and starring Brit Marling, Alexander Skarsgård, and Elliot Page. Writers Batmanglij and Marling spent two months in 2009 practicing freeganism and co-wrote a screenplay inspired by their experiences and drawing on thrillers from the 1970s. The American studio Fox Searchlight Pictures had bought rights to distribute Batmanglij's previous film Sound of My Voice and also collaborated with the director to produce The East. With Ridley Scott as producer and Tony Scott as executive producer, Fox Searchlight contracted Scott Free Productions, headquartered in London, to produce the film. The East was filmed in two months in Shreveport, Louisiana at the end of 2011. The film premiered to strong reviews at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival on January 20, 2013. It was released in theaters on May 31, 2013. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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