Operation Curveball

Operation Curveball (2020)

Genres - Comedy, Culture & Society, Historical Film  |   Sub-Genres - Crime Comedy  |   Release Date - Oct 8, 2021 (USA - Limited)  |   Run Time - 108 min.  |   MPAA Rating - NR
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Synopsis by Augustine Chay

Sebastian Blomberg, Dar Salim, Virginia Kull, and Thorsten Merten star in director Johannes Naber’s political satire. Inspired by a true story, it follows a paranoid German bioweapons expert who readily believes an Iraqi asylum seeker’s claims that Saddam Hussein is manufacturing weapons of mass destruction. This fiction leads to devastating consequences after American intelligence agencies capitalize on it.

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biological-weapons, intelligence [gov't], Iraq War, political-conspiracy, Secret-Service