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Production Company: Revolution Films, Fortissimo Films

Director: Michael Winterbottom

Writer(s): Laurence Coriat and Michael Winterbottom

Producer(s): Andrew Eaton

Status: Preproduction (Principal photography Summer 2010; film slated for completion 2011.)

Release Date: 2011

Character: Thomas Wilkin, a British officer (lead)

Co-Star(s): Colin Firth (Avraham Stern), Matthew Macfadyen (Geoffrey Morton, a British officer)

Plot: A police-thriller set in Tel-Aviv and Jerusalem during the British Mandate era in Palestine.  It tells the gripping true story of two British police officers Thomas Wilkin, played by Jim Sturgess, and Geoffrey Morton, played by Matthew Macfadyen and their battle to bring to an end the campaign of bombings and assassinations by the extreme right-wing Jewish underground led by the charismatic poet, Avraham Stern.  The film culminates when the two policemen track Stern down to his apartment hide-out in Tel Aviv on Mizrachi Street in 1942. (synopsis per IndieWire)