Cast: Clive Owen, Naomi Watts, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Brian F. O'Byrne, Victor Slezak, Patrick Baladi, Luca Barbareschi, Luca Calvani, Nilaja Sun, Alessandro Fabrizi, Fabrice Scott, Matt Patresi, Loris Loddi, Marco Gambino
Director: Tom Tykwer
Writer: Eric Singer
Producers: Lloyd Phillips, Charles Roven, Richard Suckle
Co-Producers: Gloria Fan, Henning Molfenter, Charlie Woebcken
Executive Producers: Terence Chang, Alan Glazer, Jeffrey Lurie, John Woo
Art Direction: Sarah Horton, Kai Koch, Luca Tranchino
Casting: Michelle Guish, Béatrice Kruger, Francine Maisler, Harika Uygur
Costume Design: Ngila Dickson
D.O.P.: Frank Griebe
Editor: Mathilde Bonnefoy
Music: Reinhold Heil, Johnny Klimek, Tom Tykwer
Production Design: Uli Hanisch
Set Decoration: Simon-Julien Boucherie, Dimitri Capuani
Interpol Agent Louis Salinger (Clive Owen) and Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Eleanor Whitman (Naomi Watts) are determined to bring to justice one of the world’s most powerful banks. Uncovering myriad and reprehensible illegal activities, Salinger and Whitman follow the money from Berlin to Milan to New York to Istanbul. Finding themselves in a high-stakes chase across the globe, their relentless tenacity puts their own lives at risk as their targets will stop at nothing – even murder – to continue financing terror and war.
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Film Format: 65mm
Filming Locations: Autostadt, Germany;
Berlin, Germany; Istanbul, Turkey; Milan, Italy;
Production Companies: Mosaic Media Group
Rose Line Productions, Studio Babelsberg, X-Filme Creative Pool
Production Schedule: 10th September 2007 - January 2008
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- The film received US$7.9 million from the German Federal Film Fund based on the board's assessment that two-thirds of it would be produced in Germany and that the film involved German talent like actors Armin Mueller-Stahl and Axel Milberg, cinematographer Frank Griebe, and production designer Uli Hanisch.
- A life-size replica of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum was built for a shoot-out scene.