Details

Release year: 2018

Storyline

A world-renowned opera singer becomes trapped in a hostage situation when she's invited to perform for a wealthy industrialist in South America.

Top credits

Directors

Paul Weitz

Writers

Cast

Julianne Moore — Roxanne Coss
Ken Watanabe — Hosokawa
Sebastian Koch — Messner
Ryô Kase — Gen

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Did you know

• As Julianne Moore is not a trained opera singer, she was coached to lip synch for her singing scenes. Although she has some singing experience, and has sung before in movies, she cannot sing the vocally demanding genre of opera. Reneé Fleming, a soprano, provided the singing voice for Moore.

• Ken Watanabe was in Peru working on a film the week before the 1996 Japanese embassy hostage crisis, on which this film is based, first broke out in that country. Had he stayed a few days longer, he may have attended the very party that resulted in the four-month standoff and dozens of deaths.

• The location of the real hostage situation that inspired the novel and film took place in Peru. The film however was filmed in Mexico.