The Peacemaker (1997 film)
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| Directed by | Mimi Leder |
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| Screenplay by | Michael Schiffer |
| Based on | "One Point Safe" by Andrew Cockburn and Leslie Redlich Cockburn |
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| Music by | Hans Zimmer |
| Cinematography | Dietrich Lohmann |
| Edited by | David Rosenbloom |
| Distributed by | DreamWorks Pictures |
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124 minutes |
| Country | United States |
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| Budget | $50 million |
| Box office | $110.4 million |
The Peacemaker is a 1997 American action-political thriller film starring George Clooney and Nicole Kidman and directed by Mimi Leder. It was the first film released by DreamWorks. While the story takes place all over the world, it was shot primarily in the Republic of Macedonia, with some sequences filmed in New York City, Philadelphia, and Bratislava.
In an Eastern Orthodox church in Pale, Bosnia and Herzegovina, an unidentified man (later revealed to be a Bosnian minister) is murdered after being paged to meet someone outside. (The murderer called him "minister").
At a missile base in Chelyabinsk, Russia, ten SS-18 ICBMs are being decommissioned. Ten nuclear warheads are loaded onto a train and sent to a separate site for dismantling. However, a corrupt high-ranking Russian general, Aleksandr Kodoroff, has other plans. Along with a rogue tactical unit, he kills all the other soldiers on board the transport train and then transfers nine of the warheads to another train. Kodoroff then activates the timer on the remaining warhead and sends the transport on a collision course with a passenger train. Minutes later, the 500-kiloton warhead detonates, killing the survivors and delaying an investigation.
The detonation immediately attracts the attention of the U.S. government. White House nuclear expert Dr. Julia Kelly (Kidman) believes that Chechen terrorists are behind the incident. U.S. Army Special Forces Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Devoe (Clooney) interrupts her briefing to suggest that the crash and detonation were staged to hide the hijacking of the other warheads on board. A call to Devoe's long-time friend and Russian counterpart, Dimitri Vertikoff (Mueller-Stahl), adds credence to his hypothesis and he is assigned as Dr. Kelly's military liaison.
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