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The Osterman Weekend is a american film of genre Drama directed by Sam Peckinpah released in USA on 14 october 1983 with Rutger Hauer

The Osterman Weekend (1983)

The Osterman Weekend
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Released in USA 14 october 1983
Length 1h43
Directed by ,    
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Thriller,    Action,    Adventure,    Spy
Rating57% 2.8988752.8988752.8988752.8988752.898875

The Osterman Weekend is a 1983 suspense thriller film directed by Sam Peckinpah, based on the novel of the same name by Robert Ludlum. The film stars Rutger Hauer, John Hurt, Burt Lancaster, Dennis Hopper, Meg Foster and Craig T. Nelson. It was Peckinpah's final film before his death in 1984.

Synopsis

CIA director Maxwell Danforth (Lancaster) watches a filmed recording of agent Laurence Fassett (Hurt) and his wife making love. When Fassett goes into the bathroom to take a shower, two assassins enter the bedroom and kill his wife (Merete Van Kamp) by holding her down and injecting poison into her nostril with a syringe. It is suggested that the woman was an innocent bystander sacrificed by Danforth as collateral damage. Fassett, unaware of his employer's involvement, goes almost insane with grief and rage and begins to hunt down the assassins, eventually uncovering a Soviet spy network known as Omega.

Actors

Rutger Hauer

(John Tanner)
John Hurt

(Lawrence Fassett)
Dennis Hopper

(Richard Tremayne)
Craig T. Nelson

(Bernard Osterman)
Meg Foster

(Ali Tanner)
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