A heroic story about firefighters and rescuers. What we call an act of bravery is just a usual routine for them, if only one can get used to mortal danger and extreme risk. When people in distress seem to have nobody who may help them, rescuers come to fight against merciless forces of nature.
DEBUT is about Philip who dreams of becoming a model. At a casting he gets the chance to be photographed with the well-known model Sebastiaan, they fall in love. During the photo shoot, Philip pushes his limits more and more in order to keep the photographer's interest. Philip and Sebastiaan lose control of the situation when Philip is doing everything he can just to be able to stay in front of the camera.
Masked figures with machine guns march into the secondary school in Karatas, take the pupils hostage, and execute one of them. They make no demands. Silent terror is their modus operandi. Seeing as the army will take two days to arrive due to a snowstorm, maths teacher Tazshi decides to assemble his own assault team: his ex-wife, the gym teacher, the cowardly school principal, an alcoholic night watchman, the village idiot, and an incompetent chief of police.
What follows is no traditional action film, but a thriller with snatches of comedy, in which the enemy isn’t hidden behind masks, but is in the minds of the liberators. Before they act, they have to overcome their personal demons. Comparisons to the school hostage-takings in Beslan and Kazan are obvious, yet Karatas – the mythical village where much of director Adilkhan Yerzhanov’s work is set – could be anywhere. It is universally acknowledged that crises bring out people's true natures.
干练勇敢的瓦莱丽(娜奥米·沃茨 Naomi Watts 饰)是CIA“打击核扩散”部门的一名秘密特工,正受命在伊拉克调查大规模杀伤性武器的存在可能,然而调查中却根本没发现任何正在进行的核武器计划,这与很多美国官员预期的结果大相径庭。瓦莱丽的丈夫乔(西恩·潘 Sean Penn 饰)是一名外交官,被委托在非洲调查当地是否曾向伊拉克贩卖浓缩铀,而其结果也与瓦莱丽一样,毫无发现相关迹象,随后,乔在《纽约时报》发表了社论,详细阐述了他的调查结果,没想到却引发了一场极其激烈的舌战。瓦莱丽也受到了致命的牵连,她的特工身份很快被泄露给了一名华盛顿时事记者,她在海外的工作变得寸步难行,甚至危及到自身和同事的安全,家人朋友也无法承受地离她而去。这究竟是个偶然还是刻意陷害?面临工作和生活即将崩溃的边缘,瓦莱丽不得不忍辱奋力站起,以单薄的身体对抗这一切背后强大的阴谋……