International

Videorecording of a motion picture originally released in 2009.

Title from container.

Director of photography, Frank Griebe; editor, Mathilde Bonnefoy; music, Tom Tykwer, Johnny Klimek, Reinhold Heil.

Special features: director & writer commentary; extended scene -- Featurettes: Making The International ; Shooting at the Guggenheim ; The architecture of The International ; The Autostadt.

The International is a 2009 action thriller film directed by Tom Tykwer and written by Eric Warren Singer. Starring Clive Owen and Naomi Watts, the film follows an Interpol agent and an American district attorney who jointly investigate corruption within the IBBC, a fictional merchant bank based in Luxembourg.
Louis Salinger, an Interpol detective, and Eleanor Whitman, an Assistant District Attorney from Manhattan, are assigned to investigate the International Bank of Business and Credit (IBBC), which funds criminal activities such as money laundering, terrorism, arms trading, and the destabilization of governments. Salinger's and Whitman's investigation takes them to Milan, where the IBBC assassinates Umberto Calvini, an arms manufacturer and Italian prime ministerial candidate. The assassin diverts suspicion to a local assassin with political connections, who is then promptly killed by a corrupt carabiniere. Salinger and Whitman get a lead on the second assassin, but the carabiniere confronts the two and orders them out of the country. At the airport, they are able to check the security camera footage for clues on the whereabouts of the bank's assassin, and follow a suspect to New York City.
In New York, Salinger and Whitman are met by two New York Police Department (NYPD) detectives, Iggy Ornelas and Bernie Ward, who have a photograph of the assassin's face. Salinger, Ornelas, and Ward locate Dr. Isaacson to whose practice the assassin's leg brace has been traced, and they are able to follow him to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
Jonas Skarssen, the chairman of the IBBC, reveals to his superiors White and Wexler that Calvini was killed so that they could have his sons buy missile guidance systems in which the bank has invested. Since the bank knows that Salinger and Whitman are close to finding their assassin, they send a hit team to kill him, while Wexler is arrested by Ornelas. As Salinger and Ward speak to the assassin and attempt to arrest him, a shootout at the Guggenheim erupts when a number of gunmen attack them. Ward is killed in the chaos, and Salinger is forced to team up with the assassin to fight off the gunmen. However, the assassin is mortally wounded during their escape and dies of his injuries.

Written by Eric Warren Singer; produced by Charles Roven, Richard Suckle, Lloyd Phillips; directed by Tom Tykwer.

Cast: Clive Owen, Naomi Watts, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Brian F. O'Byrne.

BBFC certificate: 15.

English dialogue; subtitles in Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, Hindi, Norwegian, Swedish.