The American

The American (2010)

Timing: 1:44 (104 min)

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Actors and characters

Release date

2010-08-31

Country

United Kingdom, United States

Production

Focus Features, This Is That, Smoke House Pictures, Twins Financing, Greenlit Rights

Genre

Crime, Drama, Thriller

Budget

$20 000 000

Revenue

$67 876 281

Website

https://www.focusfeatures.com/the_american

Director

Anton Corbijn

Actors

George Clooney, Violante Placido, Thekla Reuten, Paolo Bonacelli, Johan Leysen, Irina Björklund, Lars Hjelm, Björn Granath, Giorgio Gobbi, Silvana Bosi
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Scenario

Producer

George Clooney, Anne Carey, Grant Heslov, Jill Green, Ann Wingate, Enzo Sisti

Operator

Martin Ruhe

Composer

Herbert Grönemeyer

Artist

Alessandro Santucci

Audition

Béatrice Kruger

Editing

Andrew Hulme
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• The film is based on Martin Booth's novel "A Very Private Gentleman" (1990).
• The film is set in the Abruzzo region of Italy, east of Rome. It is an inaccessible and majestic mountainous region, a location, according to Corbijn, that had few parallels in cinema.
• On April 6, 2009, an earthquake struck Abruzzo; 30,000 people were injured, and 60,000 were left homeless; much of the city of L'Aquila, where Corbijn intended to film, lay in ruins. Clooney visited L'Aquila with actor Bill Murray on April 9th to support the victims of the disaster and open a cinema in the tent city in San Demetrio. He promised that filming would begin as early as September.
• Attentive viewers should notice the appearance of a black mastiff dog in some scenes in Castel del Monte. Wally, as the dog was named, lived in the town square and was picked up by the film crew. Every time the command “Action!” was given, the dog happily ran into the frame.
• Castel del Monte has only 129 residents. When one of the crew members needed urgent dental care, he heard the following message on the local dentist's answering machine: “Unavailable, as I am participating in the filming of a Hollywood movie.”
• Filming took place in Italy and Sweden from September 28 to November 16, 2009.
• The film is based on Martin Booth's novel "A Very Private Gentleman" (1990).
• Observant viewers should notice the appearance of a black mastiff dog in some scenes at Castel del Monte. Wally, as the dog was called, lived in the square and was picked up by the film crew. Every time the command "Action!" was given, the dog happily ran into the frame.