KIDNAPPING FREDDY HEINEKEN (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

Anthony Hopkins (The Silence of the Lambs), Sam Worthington (Avatar), Jim Sturgess (Across the Universe), Ryan Kwanten (True Blood), Jemima West (The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones), Thomas Cocquerel (Love Child), Yolanthe Cabau (Pain & Gain), David Dencik (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy), Mark van Eeuwen (The Dinner Club), Marie-Jeanne Maldague (Paper Souls)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Daniel Alfredson (The Girl Who Played With Fire), director; William Brookfield (Rough Magic), writer; Judy Cairo (Crazy Heart), Howard Meltzer (Tenderness) and Michael A. Simpson (Funland), producers; Lucas Vidal (Fast & Furious 6), composer; Fredrik Bäckar (Echoes from the Dead), cinematographer; Håkan Karlsson (The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

On a late November evening in Amsterdam, 1983, beer tycoon Freddy Heineken (Hopkins) is kidnapped by a group of criminals including Willem Holleeder (Worthington) and Cor van Hout (Strugess), which results in one of the largest ransoms ever paid for an individual…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Kidnapping Freddy Heineken tells the fascinating true crime story involving one of the wealthiest people in the Netherlands and the criminals that soon fell apart after the incident…

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 3RD APRIL 2015

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