Witness in the War Zone

• Directors: Nathaniel Gutman; Richard Stroud
• AMG Rating:
• Genre: Drama
• Movie Type: Psychological Drama, Political Drama
• Themes: Members of the Press, Redemption, Crisis of Conscience
• Main Cast: Christopher Walken, Hywel Bennett, Marita Marschall, Arnon Zadok
• Release Year: 1987
• Country: UK/WG/IL
• Run Time: 110 minutes
• MPAA Rating: R

Plot

Tumultuous Beirut provides the setting for this political drama that centers on a world-weary, lazy American reporter who has been reluctantly assigned to cover the latest war between the PLO and the Christian Phalangists. He could care less about the conflict and sends in stories stolen from other hard-working journalists until he begins getting more involved and interested after he humiliates himself by interviewing a bogus PLO leader. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

Cast

• Christopher Walken - Don Stevens
• Hywel Bennett - Mike Jessop
• Marita Marschall - Linda Larson
• Arnon Zadok - Hamdi Abu-Yussuf

Etta Ankri - Samira; Martin Umbach - Bernard; Moshe Ivgi - Abdul; Sasson Gabay - Bassam; Shahar Cohen - Habib; Shlomo Bar-Abba - Micha; Gaby Shoshan - Salim; Yigal Naor - Antoine; Jerry Weinstock - Snyder; Reuven Dayan - Karim; Nader Masraawi - Daoud; David Menachem - Phalangist; Shlomo Tarshish - Yoram; Greg Hicks; John Hurt; Amos Lavi - Yessin Abu-Riadd; Leigh Lawson; Robert McBain; Imogen Stubbs; Brynn Thayer; Moni Moshonov - Danny

Credit

Yoram Barzilai - Art Director, Riki Shelach Nissimoff - First Assistant Director, Nathaniel Gutman - Director, Richard Stroud - Director, Peter Przygodda - Editor, Michael Scharfstein - Line Producer, Hans Jansen - Composer (Music Score), Jim Parker - Composer (Music Score), Jacques Zwart - Composer (Music Score), Thomas Mauch - Cinematographer, Amnon Salomon - Cinematographer, Elisabeth Wolters-Alfs - Producer, Yoram Polack - Special Effects, Hanan Pled - Screen Story, Hanan Pled - Screenwriter

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