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Flight of the Storks (2013)
Directed by Jan Kounen
Overview
Jonathan Anselme, a young English academic, teams up with Max Böhm, an amateur ornithologist, to follow storks on their migration from Switzerland to Africa. Max wants to find out why some birds never return from this journey. However, after Max is found dead in mysterious circumstances, Jonathan decides to make the trip alone, never suspecting that he will find himself caught up in an international web of intrigue. While the Swiss detective Dumaz investigates Max Böhm’s murky past, Jonathan is forced to confront his own troubled history. He uncovers a trail of grisly murders travelling through Bulgaria, Turkey, the Middle East, the Congo along the pathway of the migrating storks and their deadly secret.
Length 180 minutes
Actors
Rutger Hauer | Amr Waked | Antoine Basler | Harry Treadaway | Danny Keogh | Perdita Weeks | Clemens Schick | Richard Lukunku | Carel Nel