Directed by:
Gavin MillarScreenplay:
William BoydCinematography:
Roger PrattComposer:
Stanley MyersCast:
Michael Hordern, Donald Pleasence, Denholm Elliott, Herbert Lom, Clive Mantle, Jack Shepherd, John Harding, Renée Soutendijk, Sverre Anker Ousdal (more)Plots(1)
In a case of mistaken identity, mild-mannered wildlife writer William Boot (Michael Maloney - Love on a Branch Line, Truly Madly Deeply) is sent as a foreign correspondent to the fictional East African country of Ishmaelia on the eve of a war. Boot flounders through a sea of wild rumours and a horde of sleazy reporters desperate for a story - any story. If he thinks things are thought now, wait until he stumbles onto something journalists work for all their lives! (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
![Michael Hordern](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/527/161527020_25ef13.jpg)
Michael Hordern
UK
Best movies:
Gandhi (1982)
Barry Lyndon (1975)
Shogun (1980) (series)
![Donald Pleasence](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/163/146/163146894_c79c65.jpg)
Donald Pleasence
UK
Best movies:
The Great Escape (1963)
Watch Out, We're Mad (1974)
Jesus of Nazareth (1977) (TV movie)
![Denholm Elliott](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/267/267410_7cbbf8.jpg)
Denholm Elliott
UK
Best movies:
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
Bangkok Hilton (1989) (series)
![Herbert Lom](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/271/271168_68454e.jpg)
Herbert Lom
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Treasure of Silver Lake (1962)
The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976)
Spartacus (1960)
![Clive Mantle](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/158/484/158484490_a79b41.jpg)
Clive Mantle
UK
Best movies:
Sherlock (2010) (series)
After Thomas (2006) (TV movie)
Into the Storm (2009) (TV movie)
![Jack Shepherd](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/158/188/158188040_d64962.jpg)
Jack Shepherd
UK
Best movies:
The Last Valley (1971)
Escape from Sobibor (1987) (TV movie)
Into the Storm (2009) (TV movie)
John Harding
UK
Best movies:
Agatha Christie: Poirot (1989) (series)
This Property Is Condemned (1966)
The Bourne Identity (1988) (series)
![Renée Soutendijk](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/297/160297698_403cff.jpg)
Renée Soutendijk
Netherlands
Best movies:
Peter the Great (1986) (series)
The Fourth Man (1983)
Out of Order (1984)
![Sverre Anker Ousdal](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/168/650/168650808_zbtdm3.jpg)
Sverre Anker Ousdal
Norway
Best movies:
The Last Place on Earth (1985) (series)
Kristin Lavransdatter (1995)
The Secret Life of Words (2005)
![Charles Pemberton](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/000/159000010_5e59bb.gif)
Charles Pemberton
UK
Best movies:
Agatha Christie: Poirot (1989) (series)
Foyle's War (2002) (series)
Miss Marple: A Pocket Full of Rye (1985) (TV movie)
Fred Pearson
Best movies:
Wives and Daughters (1999) (series)
Priest (1994)
Inspector George Gently (2007) (series)
![Matthew Scurfield](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/548/159548342_d6a3f6.jpg)
Matthew Scurfield
UK
Best movies:
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
The Secret Adversary (1983) (TV movie)
Black Beauty (1994)
![Michael Maloney](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/422/160422865_fe4b86.jpg)
Michael Maloney
UK
Best movies:
The Last Place on Earth (1985) (series)
Hamlet (1996)
Henry V (1989)
![Maurice Travail](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/397/160397505_1a7bed.jpg)
Maurice Travail
France
Best movies:
Holy Year (1976)
The Big Store (1973)
Incorrigible (1975)
Helen Lindsay
India
Best movies:
Agatha Christie: Poirot (1989) (series)
Foyle's War (2002) (series)
Mission: Impossible (1996)
![Tony Haygarth](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/164/381/164381947_446c17.jpg)
Tony Haygarth
UK
Best movies:
Holocaust (1978) (series)
Hornblower: Duty (2003) (TV movie)
Chicken Run (2000)
![Nicola Pagett](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/655/160655042_4b0277.gif)
Nicola Pagett
Egypt
Best movies:
Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)
A Woman of Substance (1984) (TV movie)
An Awfully Big Adventure (1995)
Nicholas Barnes
UK
Best movies:
The Brothers Lionheart (1977)
Outland (1981)
The Guys (2002)
Gwen Nelson
UK
Best movies:
Doctor Zhivago (1965)
It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet (1975)
A Kind of Loving (1962)
![Rosamund Greenwoood](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/360/161360307_cd2694.jpg)
Rosamund Greenwoood
UK
Best movies:
A Night to Remember (1958)
Macbeth (1948)
Night of the Demon (1957)