Deadline (film)

Infobox Film
name = Deadline


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caption = Deadline DVD Cover under the title Witness in the War Zone
director = Nathaniel Gutman
producer = Elisabeth Wolters-Alfs
writer = Hanan Peled
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starring = Christopher Walken
music = Hans Jansen
Jacques Zwart
cinematography = Thomas Mauch
Amnon Salomon
editing = Peter Przygodda
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runtime = 100 min.
country = USA
language = English
budget =
gross = $141,211 (USA)
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imdb_id = 0092844

"Deadline" is a 1987 war/drama film about a journalist amidst a war is set up and fed false information. Film directed by Nathaniel Gutman. Christopher Walken stars as main role, "ace reporter" Don Stevens. Film shoot in Israel and Christopher Walken won Magnolia Award for "Best Actor" in Shanghai International TV Festival. Film released in some countries under the title Witness in the War Zone.

Plot

"Ace Reporter" Don Stevens (Christopher Walken) is an American journalist who went to Beirut, Lebanon during the war. He stays in a hotel with English journalist Mike Jessop. Now, he is promised an interview with a top PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) leader Palestian Yassin Abu-Riadd (Amos Lavi). However, this proves to be a set-up and he is duped into interviewing an imposter who claims the PLO are prepared to negotiate peacefully. Outraged by this deception, Stevens becomes determined to find out the truth. In this quest he is helped by a Scandinavian doctor, Linda, who -it emerges- is Yassin's estranged girlfriend. Along the way, Stevens is hindered by everyone around him. The PLO threatens him, the Phalangists arrest him and the Israelis ignore him. Tricked and beaten, he gradually uncovers a murder plot, double agents, the bombing of the Phalangists headquarters and, most terrifying of all, a plan to massacre hundreds of civilians. In a story that takes the lid off events in Lebanon, Don Stevens becomes a reluctant hero, and in doing so, gets the scoop of a lifetime!

External links

*imdb title|id=0092844|title=Deadline