Overview

Ulrich Mott is an eccentric and versatile social climber with grandiose plans to affect United States foreign policy. Encouraged in his attempts by his strategically chosen (and much older) wife, the well-connected journalist Elsa Brecht, Mott has a knack for making himself indispensable and impossible to ignore. The only one seemingly immune to his charms is Elsa's daughter Amanda, who might simply disapprove of her mother marrying a much younger man - or perhaps she senses something more sinister beneath the smooth-talking surface?

Cast

Christoph Waltz

Ulrich Mott

Annette Bening

Amanda Brecht

Vanessa Redgrave

Elsa Brecht

Corey Hawkins

Daniel Volker

Sergio Di Zio

Gordon Nichols

Noam Jenkins

Talabani

David Reale

Weatherford