Backstabbing for Beginners (2018)
Per Fly, 2018
Backstabbing for Beginners
Michael Soussan, 2008
Backstabbing for Beginners is a movie directed by Per Fly in 2018 and based on the book Backstabbing for Beginners: A Crash Course in International Diplomacy by Michael Soussan, first published in 2008. The movie features Theo James, Ben Kingsley, Belçim Bilgin, Jacqueline Bisset, Rachel Wilson, Rossif Sutherland, and others.
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Storyline
The film follows Michael Sullivan, the son of US State Department diplomat who died when Michael was young. Michael leaves a lucrative job at a large bank and lands his dream job as a diplomat with the United Nations, in the fall of 2002. He is assigned to work as an assistant to Under-Secretary-General Costa Passaris, the head of the Oil-for-Food Programme, operated since 1995 to help the citizens of Iraq without allowing the oil sales to boost Saddam Hussein and his regime.
Movie vs Book
Year
2018
Minutes
108
Movie Rate
6.30
Source: IMDb
Movie
Backstabbing for Beginners
Director: Per Fly
Country: Denmark
Year: 2018
Length: 1h48m
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Year
2008
Pages
332
Book Rate
8.02
S: Goodreads
Book
Backstabbing for Beginners
Subtitle: A Crash Course in International Diplomacy
Author: Michael Soussan
Country: Denmark
First published in: 2008
Length: 332 pages
Genre: Biography
User polls & recommendations
“Working on an adaptation is not as satisfying, because it's not your original work: you're interpreting.”
BRIAN HELGELAND (Screenwriter)
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