It's the 1950s. Anatole Zsa-zsa Korda, an enigmatic industrialist and one of the richest people in Europe, has just survived another assassination attempt (his sixth plane crash). The ruthless businessman is hated not only by his competitors, but also by governments of different ideologies around the world. At the moment, he is in the final stages of the biggest project of his life—the so-called Korda Land and Sea Phoenician Infrastructure Scheme. With it, he aims to stimulate the development of a potentially wealthy region, while securing for himself five per cent of revenues for the next one hundred and fifty years. He decides to appoint a successor: his estranged twenty-year-old daughter Liesl, currently a novice nun ...
The Phoenician Scheme The Phoenician Scheme
cast Benicio del Toro, Mia Threapleton, Michael Cera, Riz Ahmed, Tom Hanks, Bryan Cranston, Mathieu Amalric, Richard Ayoade, Jeffrey Wright, Scarlett Johansson, Benedict Cumberbatch, Rupert Friend, Hope Davis
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