A soldier recounts his relationship with a famous political prisoner attempting to overthrow their country's authoritarian government.
A political drama about terrorism, revolution, and the power of memory. In an unnamed place and time, an idealistic soldier named Joe strikes up an illicit friendship with a political prisoner named Thorne, who eventually recruits him into a bloody coup d'etat. But in the post-revolutionary world, what Thorne asks of Joe leads the two men into bitter conflict, spiraling downward into madness until Joe's co-conspirators conclude that they must erase him from history.—Anonymous
The story of an idealistic freedom fighter, Joe (Ralph Fiennes), who tells us of a very famous revolutionary terrorist leader, Thorne (Donald Sutherland), he has known as a tortured prisoner by the tyranny in power.Thorne recruits him for a successful but bloody coup d'etat which overthrows the tyranny in place.
But in the world that follows, Thorne shows he hasn't learn anything from the past, and becomes another tyrant, maybe worse than the last one, ...and Joe has to overthrow him.
The story of an idealistic freedom fighter, Joe (Ralph Fiennes), who tells us of a very famous revolutionary terrorist leader, Thorne (Donald Sutherland), he has known as a tortured prisoner by the tyranny in power.Thorne recruits him for a successful but bloody coup d'etat which overthrows the tyranny in place.
But in the world that follows, Thorne shows he hasn't learned anything from the past, and becomes another tyrant, maybe worse than the last one, ...and Joe has to overthrow him.
