Traitor
Director: Jeffrey Nachmanoff
Genre: Action, Thriller, Spy, Suspense, Action/Adventure, Crime Thriller, Crime Fiction, Drama
Year: 2008
Country: United States of America
Language: English Language, Arabic Language
Starring: Guy Pearce, Don Cheadle, Jeff Daniels, Neal McDonough, Saïd Taghmaoui, Simon Reynolds, Mozhan Marnò, Archie Panjabi, Jonathan Walker, Alexandra Castillo, Raad Rawi, Shahla Kareen, Lorena Gale, Tom Barnett, Paulino Nunes, Alyy Khan, Suzy Brack
Traitor is a 2008 American spy thriller film, based on an idea by Steve Martin who is also an executive producer. Written and directed by Jeffrey Nachmanoff, the film stars Don Cheadle and Guy Pearce in the lead roles.
Samir Horn (Don Cheadle) is an Arabic-speaking Sudanese-American and devout Muslim. His Sudanese Druze father was killed by a car bomb when he was a child. As an adult, Horn is first seen operating as an arms dealer. While negotiating a deal with Omar (Saïd Taghmaoui) in Yemen he is arrested and thrown into a Yemeni jail. Later, Samir and Omar become friends and when Omar's people arrange an escape, he takes Samir with them.
Joining the Islamic Brotherhood, Samir uses the skills he learned as a Special Forces Engineer Sergeant with the U.S. Army Special Forces to bomb the U.S. consulate in Nice, France. The group then devises a plot to place suicide bombers on 50 buses in the U.S. during Thanksgiving. Meanwhile, in London, the Islamic Brotherhood finds out Fareed is being targeted by the FBI and he escapes by a source in the FBI headquarters. It is revealed that Samir is working under deep cover for an intelligence contractor, Carter (Jeff Daniels), with the United
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