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Adapted from the best-seller by master spy novelist John le Carr, A Most Wanted Man takes place in present day Hamburg, Germany where a mysterious, tortured and near-dead half-Chechen, half-Russian man on the run arrives in the city's Islamic community desperate for help and looking to recover his late Russian father's ill-gotten fortune. Nothing about this young man seems to add up is he a victim or a thief or, worse still, an extremist intent on destruction Drawn into this web of intrigue is a private British banker and a young female lawyer determined to defend the defenseless. All the while, they are being watched by the brilliant, roguish chief of a covert German spy unit (Hoffman), who fights to put the pieces together as the clock ticks.

CAST: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rachel McAdams, Robin Wright, Willem Dafoe, Daniel Br�hl

DIRECTOR: Anton Corbijn

RUN TIME: 121 min