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Guy Van Stratten, a small-time American smuggler working in Europe, seeks out a Munich resident named Jakob Zouk to warn him about a plot against his life. Zouk is terminally ill and receives the news with apathy, so Stratten explains his personal reasons for wanting to keep Zouk alive. His narrative is accompanied by scenes in flashback.
Guy Van Stratten (Robert Arden) gets the order from Mr. Arkadin (Orson Welles), to find out everything about his past, because he lost his memory. Stratten accepts, but when he finds out that all of the people he asked about Arkadin are getting killed, he tries to prevent Arkadin from killing him.
Jun 26, 2007 · The protagonist is Guy van Stratten—it turns out, a false identity in a film awash in false identities and in which a major set-piece is a masked ball. Van Stratten, based on Welles’s Harry Lime character in The Third Man (Carol Reed, 1949), is a young hustler/adventurer chasing a fortune—it turns out, Gregory Arkadin’s.
Feb 7, 2006 · Van Stratten initiates an affair with Arkadin’s daughter Raina in order to get close to her father; he then tries to blackmail Arkadin, only to be hired by him instead. In search of Arkadin’s past, Van Stratten moves from country to country, talking to people who knew him in his youth, and the picture gradually becomes clear: a white ...
Guy Van Stratten, a small-time American smuggler working in Europe, seeks out a Munich resident named Jakob Zouk to warn him about a plot against his life. Zouk is terminally ill and receives the news with apathy, so Stratten explains his personal reasons for wanting to keep Zouk alive. His narrative is accompanied by scenes in flashback.
Jul 9, 2021 · He offers Van Stratten $15,000 (a princely sum at the time—today it would be worth nearly $150,000) to find out where he came from and how he first became wealthy. Van Stratten then hops around the globe on Arkadin’s dime, tracking down clues to his former life by questioning a variety of outrageous characters.
Confidential Report: Directed by Orson Welles. With Orson Welles, Michael Redgrave, Patricia Medina, Akim Tamiroff. An elusive billionaire hires an American smuggler to investigate his past, leading to a dizzying descent into a cold-war European landscape.
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