The Interpreter (2005)
The truth needs no translation.
Genre : Crime, Thriller
Runtime : 2H 8M
Director : Sydney Pollack
Writer : Charles Randolph, Scott Frank, Steven Zaillian
Synopsis
After Silvia Broome, an interpreter at United Nations headquarters, overhears plans of an assassination, an American Secret Service agent is sent to investigate.
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