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Operation Curveball

R | Comedy, Crime, History | 1 hr 49 mins
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A true story. Unfortunately. German bioweapons expert Dr. Wolf is dogged in his belief that the President of Iraq, Saddam Hussein, is manufacturing chemical weapons. But he must return home when his search for WMDs across Iraq with a multinational inspection team, including a CIA counterpart he is having an affair with, comes up short. Back in Germany, Dr. Wolf is lost and alone when he is asked by the Federal Intelligence Service to interrogate an Iraqi scientist, Rafid Alwan or "Curveball". Alwan claims to have worked on Hussein’s secret bio-weapons program. Dr. Wolf believes Alwan despite having zero evidence, and the two find themselves embroiled in the morally ambiguous interests of the German government and the CIA. Operation Curveball is the unbelievable true story of two scientists who find themselves out of their depth and, in doing so, help kickstart the road to the Iraq war.

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Starring
Sebastian Blomberg
Dar Salim
Franziska Brandmeier
Jeff Burrell
Virginia Kull
Marcus Calvin
Producer
Amir Hamz
Director
Johannes Naber
Writers
Johannes Naber
Oliver Keidel

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