| Title : | A mighty heart | | Material Type: | printed text | | Authors: | Michael Winterbottom, Director ; John Orloff, Script-writer ; Mariane Pearl, Author | | Publisher: | Paramount | | Publication Date: | 2007 | | Other publisher: | Plan B | | ISBN (or other code): | VFD 13531 | | General note: | Starring Angelina Jolie, Dan Futterman, and Irrfan Khan. | | Class number: | 791 | | Abstract: | On January 23, 2002, Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl is to fly from Karachi to Dubai with his pregnant wife, Mariane, also a reporter. On the day before, with great care, he has arranged an interview in a café with an Islamic fundamentalist cleric. When Danny doesn't return, Mariane initiates a search. Pakistani police, American embassy personnel, and the FBI examine witnesses, phone records, e-mails, and hard drives. Who has him? Where is he? There's also the why: because of U.S. abuse of prisoners at Guantanamo, because of a history of Journal cooperation with the CIA, because Pearl is a Jew? Through it all, Mariane is clearheaded, direct, and determined. | | Contents note: | Directed by Michael Winterbottom. 1 DVD. |
A mighty heart [printed text] / Michael Winterbottom, Director ; John Orloff, Script-writer ; Mariane Pearl, Author . - [S.l.] : Paramount : [S.l.] : Plan B, 2007. ISSN : VFD 13531 Starring Angelina Jolie, Dan Futterman, and Irrfan Khan. | Class number: | 791 | | Abstract: | On January 23, 2002, Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl is to fly from Karachi to Dubai with his pregnant wife, Mariane, also a reporter. On the day before, with great care, he has arranged an interview in a café with an Islamic fundamentalist cleric. When Danny doesn't return, Mariane initiates a search. Pakistani police, American embassy personnel, and the FBI examine witnesses, phone records, e-mails, and hard drives. Who has him? Where is he? There's also the why: because of U.S. abuse of prisoners at Guantanamo, because of a history of Journal cooperation with the CIA, because Pearl is a Jew? Through it all, Mariane is clearheaded, direct, and determined. | | Contents note: | Directed by Michael Winterbottom. 1 DVD. |
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