Vanessa Redgrave, David Strathairn and Monica Bellucci are joining the cast of the indie political drama The Whistleblower, reports Variety. Rachel Weisz toplines the film, which marks the directorial debut of Larysa Kondracki.
Based on a true story, Whistleblower chronicles the trials of a female cop from Nebraska who serves as a peacekeeper in post-war Bosnia and exposes a United Nations cover-up of a sex trafficking scandal.
Nikolaj Lie Kaas and Anna Anissimova are also joining the cast.Kondracki and Eilis Kirwan wrote the film, which begins shooting next week in Romania. The pair based the screenplay on the story of Kathryn Bolkovac, who traveled to Bosnia in 1999 as a U.N. peacekeeper.
The film is a Canadian-German co-production in partnership with Barry Films. E1 Entertainment is distributing The Whistleblower in Canada, and Voltage Pictures will rep internationally.
Source: Cinema Spy
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