Clive Owen thriller to open Berlin Film Festival

Clive Owen is not German. He's from Coventry, England. But his new film The International is directed by awkwardly named German helmer Tom Tykwer (Paris Je T'aime, Perfume: The Story Of A Murderer), funded with German money, also stars some Germans, was filmed in Germany and is set to open the 59th Berlin Film Festival on February 5.

According to Variety, the film is an action thriller centred around the dodgy deals that finance the wars and terrorism of our crazy world. All sounds a bit Lord Of War/Syriana doesn't it. Naomi Watts (not German) is also in it. We're intrigued...

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