Project Detail

Damascus Cover

Synopsis

A veteran spy is sent undercover in Syria to smuggle a chemical weapons scientist and his family out of Damascus. Within days of his arrival he realizes he’s being followed, his partner doesn’t show, his local contact disappears, and a group of men are trying to kill him. It is not long before his routine mission unravels to reveal a string of murderous conspirators. Marked for death and caught in a maddening puzzle, he must race for survival.

Details

Year: 2017
Type of project: Features
Running time: 98 mins
Director: Daniel Zelik Berk 1st Feature
Producer: Huw Penallt Jones, Hannah Leader, Joe Thomas
Executive Producer: Gary Ellis, Phillip B. Goldfine, Hicham Hajji, Hamid Herraf, Andrew Loveday, Sean O'Kelly
Editor: Martin Brinkler
Screenwriter: Daniel Zelik Berk, Samantha Newton
Director of Photography: Chloë Thomson
Production Designer: Matthew Button
Composer: Harry Escott
Principal cast: Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Olivia Thirlby, John Hurt, Jürgen Prochnow

Genre

Action

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Damascus Cover (UK), H Films (MA)

Damascus Cover Films

c/o Carnaby Sales and Distribution Ltd
Gabriel Foster-Prior

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Sales Company

Carnaby International Sales and Distribution

Severah Akhtar
20 Orange Street
London
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