Product Information
The action begins with a jarring prologue set in Sudan in 1978, where the young Samir witnesses the murder of his father by car bombing. Jumping swiftly to present day Yemen, Samir, in a dramatically ironic twist, is revealed as a mercenary selling explosives to Muslim extremists.Product Identifiers
ProducerTodd Lieberman, Don Cheadle, Jeffrey Silver, David Hoberman
EAN5060116723137
eBay Product ID (ePID)72541161
Product Key Features
ActorJeff Daniels, Aly Khan, Don Cheadle, Said Taghmaoui, Guy Pearce, Neal Mcdonough
Film/TV TitleTraitor
DirectorJeffrey Nachmanoff
LanguageEnglish
Run Time110 Mins
Aspect Ratio16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen
FormatDVD
Release Year2009
FeaturesCommentary with director Jeffrey Nachmanoff and Don Cheadle\Action featurette\Exotic locations featurette\Trailer, Widescreen, Closed Caption
GenreThriller, General
Additional Product Features
Number of Discs1
Certificate15
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States of America
Hearing ImpairedEnglish
ComposerMark Kilian
Production DesignerLaurence Bennett
ReviewsNew York Times - Somber, absorbing... [TRAITOR] manages an impressive feat of economy... [With an] unassuming style and tightly focused story, Los Angeles Times - Don Cheadle reaffirms his excellence in a good, terrorism-themed thriller that also features guy Pearce and Jeff Daniels....It tells a good, snakelike story, slithering in some unpredictable directions
Additional InformationTRAITOR is writer/director Jeffrey Nachmanoff's powerful rumination on post-9/11 foreign affairs wrapped up into a taut contemporary spy thriller. Balancing the film's sometimes conflicted ideological heft is Don Cheadle, who turns in a smartly even-keeled performance as Samir Horn, a Sudanese-born, Chicago-raised former U.S. Army Special Forces operative. The action begins with a jarring prologue set in Sudan in 1978, where the young Samir witnesses the murder of his father by car bombing. Jumping swiftly to present day Yemen, Samir, in a dramatically ironic twist, is revealed as a mercenary selling explosives to Muslim extremists. But what is never completely clear throughout TRAITOR's numerous plot-twists is just where Horn's allegiances truly lie: is he an American spy infiltrating a Jihadist plot or a devout Muslim who has traded his sympathies with the West? When an arms sale runs afoul, Samir is jailed in a Yemeni prison where he befriends Omar (Said Taghmaoui), a ringleader of a terrorist organization that is being watched by the F.B.I. A bold prison break is hatched and the pair begins collaborating on a series of bombings throughout Europe. As Samir becomes embroiled in ever-escalating terror plots, it becomes clear that he is duplicitously playing both sides at growing danger to himself and the lives of innocent people. Cut with a breathless, war reportage-styled pace, TRAITOR is an action-packed, suspense-filled thriller whose seemingly equivocal ideological veneer can be summed up as: 'In war, there are no winners'.
ScreenwriterJeffrey Nachmanoff
Sound sourceDolby Digital
Movie/TV TitleTraitor
EditorBilly Fox
Director of PhotographyJ.Michael Muro
Consumer AdviceContains moderate violence and one use of strong language