Operation: Simoom (Operacja Samum) *1999* [DVDRip][XviD][AC3][PL+English subtitles]

The film is telling a fictional story, however for which true events were a background. Operation Simoom (Polish: Operacja Samum) - was a top secret Polish Intelligence operation conducted in Iraq in 1990.

Title: Operacja Samum (Operation: Simoom)
Production: Poland / year: 1999 / type: Movie
Genres: drama / action / spy / non-fiction
Language: Polish / +English subtitles

all subtitles:
English, Czech

The film is a fictional account of Operation Simoom - a top secret Polish Intelligence operation to withdraw CIA agents before the start of the Persian Gulf War. In 1990 the CIA asked European intelligence agencies to assist in the withdrawal of six American operatives (a mix of CIA and DIA officers) investigating Iraqi troops movements in Iraq before the Gulf War. Several countries, such as: Soviet Union, Great Britain and France - refused to help in such a dangerous operation. Only Poland agreed to help.
The action of movie takes place after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990. Retired Major Józef Mayer (Marek Kondrat) is a former agent of the Polish Office for State Protection (UOP) - the main Polish Intelligence Agency. Mayer’s doctor tells him that he may die from an unspecified disease. Meanwhile he finds also about going missing of his son in Iraq... The film then shifts to Baghdad - where Iraqi security forces raid a CIA safehouse maintained by CIA agent Jeff Magnus (Kristof Konrad). Walton and his two other CIA agents manage to escape into hiding as they prepare to leave Iraq before a possible war. Walton is warned by a Polish-American a Shin Bet agent, named Karen Pierce (Anna Korcz) to leave Iraq immediately. Meanwhile, Pierce is having an affair with Mayer’s son Paweł (Radosław Pazura), who is a Polish engineer working in Iraq. Paweł is detained and Pierce escapes after they are stopped by Iraqi Secret Police. While in a military prison, Paweł is tortured for not disclosing Pierce’s location to the Iraqis. The Iraqis suspect that Paweł is a spy... Mayer is deciding to free his son, not realizing that unwittingly is playing an important role in enabling the evacuation of American agents...

CAST

Marek Kondrat as Major Józef Mayer (retired agent of UOP)
Bogusław Linda as Edward Broński (an active UOP agent)
Olaf Lubaszenko as Stanisław Kosiński (an active UOP agent)
Tadeusz Huk as the Colonel (head-chief of the UOP)
Anna Korcz as Karen Pierce (a Polish-American Shin Bet agent)
Radosław Pazura as Paweł Mayer (a Polish engineer working in Iraq, the son of Józef Mayer)
Jerzy Skolimowski as Hayes (a high-ranking CIA official)
Gustaw Holoubek as Shopsovitz (the head-chief of Shin Bet)
Kristof Konrad as Jeff Magnus (an active CIA agent)

...and others...

Directed: Władysław Pasikowski / Writed by: Maciej Dutkiewicz, Robert Brutter
Cinematography: Paweł Edelman / Music by: Goran Bregović




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GENERAL
file size: 1.37 GiB / duration: 1h 28mn / overall bit rate: 2 215 Kbps
Format: AVI (Audio Video Interleave) / Writing library: XviD 64

VIDEO
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Frame rate: 25.000 fps / Display aspect ratio: 16:9

AUDIO
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Channels: 6 channels / Channel positions: Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE
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