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Backstabbing for Beginners (2018)

Per Fly, 2018

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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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Backstabbing for Beginners

Read by: Maxwell Hamilton

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.

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Poster of Backstabbing for Beginners, the 2018 movie by Per Fly

Year

2018

Minutes

108

Movie Rate

6.30

Source: IMDb

Movie

Backstabbing for Beginners

Country: Denmark

Year: 2018

Length: 1h48m

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Cover of Backstabbing for Beginners, the 2008 book by Michael Soussan

Year

2008

Pages

332

Book Rate

8.02

S: Goodreads

Book

Backstabbing for Beginners

Subtitle: A Crash Course in International Diplomacy

Country: Denmark

First published in: 2008

Length: 332 pages

Genre: Biography

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