The International (2009 film)


The International is a 2009 GermanAmericanBritish political thriller film directed by Tom Tykwer. The film follows an Interpol agent and an American district attorney who investigate corruption within the IBBC, a fictional merchant bank based in Luxembourg. It serves organized crime and corrupt governments as a banker and as an arms broker. The banks ruthless managers assassinate potential threats including their own employees.

Louis Salinger, of Interpol, and Eleanor Whitman, an Assistant District Attorney from Manhattan, are investigating the International Bank of Business and Credit IBBC, which funds activities such as money laundering, terrorism, arms trading, and the destabilization of governments. Salingers and Whitmans investigation takes them from Berlin to Milan, where the IBBC assassinates Umberto Calvini, an arms manufacturer who is an Italian prime ministerial candidate. The banks assassin diverts suspicion to a local assassin with political connections, who is promptly killed by a corrupt policeman. Salinger and Whitman get a lead on the second assassin, but the corrupt policeman shows up again and orders them out of the country. At the airport they are able to check the security camera footage for clues on the whereabouts on the banks assassin, and follow a suspect to New York.In New York, Salinger and Whitman are met by two New York Police Department NYPD detectives, Iggy Ornelas and Bernie Ward, who have a photograph of the assassins face when he arrived in New York airport. Salinger, Ornelas, and Ward locate Dr. Isaacson to whose practice the assassins leg brace has been traced. They find the assassin and follow him to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. ........

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