Salt (2010 film)
Salt is a 2010 American action thriller spy film directed by Phillip Noyce, written by Kurt Wimmer, and starring Angelina Jolie, Liev Schreiber, Daniel Olbrychski, August Diehl and Chiwetel Ejiofor. Jolie plays Evelyn Salt, who is accused of being a Russian sleeper agent and goes on the run to try to clear her name.
Evelyn Salt Angelina Jolie is being tortured in a North Korean prison on suspicion of being an American spy. Her boyfriend, arachnologist Mike Krause August Diehl, generates so much publicity that the CIA is forced to arrange a prisoner exchange, despite the agencys policy against it. Salts CIA colleague Ted Winter Liev Schreiber greets Salt at the border. As they drive away, Mike proposes marriage, despite Salts admission that she is in fact a CIA operative.Two years later, on Salt and Mikes wedding anniversary, a Russian defector named Oleg Vasilyevich Orlov Daniel Olbrychski walks in to Salts office. Salt interrogates him, with Winter and CIA counterintelligence officer Darryl Peabody Chiwetel Ejiofor observing. Orlov claims that, on Day X, highly trained Russian sleeper agents known as KAs will destroy the U.S. Orlov tells them that Agent KA12 will assassinate Russian president Boris Matveyev Olek Krupa at the funeral of the American Vice President. Orlov reveals that KA12 is named Evelyn Salt, and lie detectors confirm his entire story. Peabody orders Salt be detained, but Orlov kills two agents and escapes. In the confusion, Salt is able to escape as well, running barefoot through the street. While she is being chased, she discovers that Mike was kidnapped. ........
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