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Mar 23, 2018 · Film Review: ‘Backstabbing for Beginners’. Moral compasses are set spinning in this elegant, thrillerish account of corruption in the 2002-’03 UN Oil-for-Food program. By Jessica Kiang.
Apr 27, 2018 · 51% Audience Score 100+ Ratings. Michael, a young United Nations employee, travels to Iraq with his mentor, who wants to show him how successful the UN's Oil-for-Food Program has been.
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- Per Fly
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- Ben Kingsley
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May 4, 2018 · Backstabbing for Beginners: Fact-based Drama About Aid Scandal Gone Sideways Does Same. By Liam Lacey. Rating: B. Rarely does a movie improve after its halfway point. But Backstabbing for Beginners— based on a real-life aid scandal in Iraq before the 2003 invasion — is an exception.
Apr 26, 2018 · Despite delivering few actual thrills, the fact-based “Backstabbing for Beginners” qualifies as an intelligent, well-crafted political thriller based on the memoirs of Michael Soussan, an...
Backstabbing for Beginners is a 2018 political thriller film directed and co-written by Per Fly, and based on the memoirs of Michael Soussan. It follows the real life corruption scandal in the UN Oil-for-Food Programme, and stars Theo James and Ben Kingsley.
Apr 24, 2018 · The film, based on the real-life Soussan’s 2008 memoir Backstabbing for Beginners: My Crash Course in International Diplomacy, examines the intricacies of the oil-for-food program through its main character’s eyes.
Apr 26, 2018 · Backstabbing for Beginners is ostensibly a thriller about the corruption and intrigue surrounding the Saddam Hussein-era “Oil for Food” program sponsored by the United Nations. But the most...
