The Little Drummer Girl

Espionage thriller about an apathetic English actress who is recruited by Israeli intelligence and sent to infiltrate a Palestinian terrorist group. Based on John Le Carre’s novel., Adaptation of John le Carre’s thriller with Diane Keaton as an actress recruited for a real Mideast mission. Yorgo Voyagis, Klaus Kinski. Khalil: Sami Frey. Tayeh: Michael Cristofer. Mesterbein: David Suchet. Directed by George Roy Hill., This shadowy thriller based on John Le Carré’s tale of spies in the Middle East stars Diane Keaton as an actress recruited by Israeli intelligence (headed by chief officer Klaus Kinski) to help them catch a Palestinian terrorist. An intriguing and suspenseful look at a long-standing conflict., Based on John Le Carré’s novel by the same name, this story about Charlie (Diane Keaton) a female double agent working between the Palestinians and Israelis, loses some of the excitement and in-depth characterization engendered by the long novel — mainly because the novel is hard to capture in a two-hour filmed format. But the action itself carries viewers along as Charlie ends up leaving England and her job as an actress in a Brit repertory company to meet Kurtz (Klaus Kinski) in Greece who recruits her as a spy. Charlie later has to handle her own emotions when she gets romantically involved with her Israeli contact (Yorgo Voyagis), though events move her quickly along to a Palestinian military camp near Beirut. Once she has passed herself off as a reliable Palestinian agent and completed her military training at the camp, she goes to Germany to hunt down a Palestinian terrorist (Sami Frey). Filled with a multitude of characters and locations, not to mention camera shots, the intensity of this story is dissipated somewhat by literally and figuratively covering a lot of territory, though the thread of the story itself is never lost.