Damascus Cover is a 2017 political thriller film, directed by Daniel Zelik Berk, from a screenplay by Berk and Samantha Newton. It is based upon the 1977 novel of the same name by Howard Kaplan. It stars Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Olivia Thirlby, Jürgen Prochnow, Igal Naor, Navid Negahban and John Hurt. This proved to be Hurt’s final film appearance before his death. The film was dedicated to his memory.The film had its world premiere at the Boston Film Festival on September 23, 2017. It was released on July 20, 2018, by Vertical Entertainment.Damascus Cover 2017 Full Movie Download
Touted as a potential future James Bond on various occasions over the last decade, Jonathan Rhys Meyers appears to have made his audition reel in Damascus Cover, a lumbering spy thriller from writer-director Daniel Zelik Berk. Based on a 1977 novel by Howard Kaplan, but with a plot updated to the end of the Cold War, this old-school action yarn is overstuffed with groaningly familiar espionage tropes. Even with its modestly starry cast, including a final screen credit for the late John Hurt, audiences are unlikely to be either shaken or stirred when Vertical Entertainment opens the film in theaters on July 20.Rhys Meyers stars as Ari Ben-Zion, an undercover Israeli spy living under a fake German identity in late 1980s Berlin. Just as the Berlin Wall falls, he botches his mission to bring back a treacherous double agent alive. Recalled to Tel Aviv under a dark cloud, Ari’s professional competence and psychological welfare come into question.Eager to prove himself to his wily Mossad boss Miki (John Hurt), Ari volunteers for a dangerous job behind enemy lines, with the aim of smuggling a chemicals weapons scientist and his family out of Syria. Arriving in Damascus, he poses as a German carpet importer with neo-Nazi sympathies, which brings him into contact with suave former Nazi Franz Ludin (Jurgen Prochnow). He also encounters flirtatious American photojournalist Kim (Olivia Thirlby), who seems instantly keen on dragging Ari into her dark room and seeing what develops.