Code Name: Emperor (2022)

Original title

Código Emperador

Directed by

Jorge Coira

Genre

thriller film

Country

Spain

Runtime

1h 45m

Rated

10

Rating

5.8 of 10 from 180 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Spanish intelligence agent is ordered to blackmail a newly elected congressman by setting up a honey trap involving an underage girl. The operative struggles with the ethical weight of his mission.

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What happens

Code Name: Emperor (Spanish: Código Emperador; also known under the working title Proyecto Emperador) is a 2022 political thriller and spy film directed by Jorge Coira and written by Jorge Guerricaechevarría. The cast, led by Luis Tosar, also features Alexandra Masangkay, Georgina Amorós, Denis Gómez, Miguel Rellán and Arón Piper, among others. It is about an intelligence agency operative who faces ethical challenges when he is told to lure a newly elected congressman into a honey trap with an underage teenage girl. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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