Red Sparrow

Action, Drama, Thriller

Dominika Egorova, a former prima ballerina, becomes the newest recruit for Sparrow School, a Russian secret intelligence service that trains exceptional young people like her to use their bodies and minds as weapons.

After enduring the perverse and sadistic training process, she emerges as the most dangerous Sparrow the program has ever produced. She is then sent to make contact with a CIA officer in the hope of discovering the identity of a mole.

Directed by: Francis Lawrence
Starring: Jennifer Lawrence, Joel Edgerton, Matthias Schoenaerts, Charlotte Rampling, Mary-Louise Parker, Jeremy Irons
Produced by: Peter Chernin, Steven Zaillian, Jenno Topping, David Ready
Screenplay by: Justin Haythe
Based on: Red Sparrow by Jason Matthews

Music by: James Newton Howard
Cinematography: Jo Willems
Edited by: Alan Edward Bell

Production company: TSG Entertainment, Chernin Entertainment
Distributed by: 20th Century Fox
Release date: February 15, 2018 (Newseum), March 2, 2018 (United States)

Running time: 140 minutes
Country: United States
Language: English

Cast

Jennifer Lawrence as Dominika Egorova, a former ballerina who is now a "Sparrow".
Joel Edgerton as Nate Nash, a CIA operative.
Matthias Schoenaerts as Ivan Vladimirovich Egorov, Dominika’s uncle and Deputy Director of the SVR.
Charlotte Rampling as Matron, the Headmistress of Sparrow School.
Mary-Louise Parker as Stephanie Boucher, a US Senator's Chief of Staff.
Ciarán Hinds as Colonel Zakharov, Director of the SVR.
Joely Richardson as Nina Egorova, Dominika’s mother.
Bill Camp as Marty Gable, Nash's supervisor.
Jeremy Irons as General Vladimir Andreievich Korchnoi
Thekla Reuten as Marta Yelenova, a fellow Sparrow.
Douglas Hodge as Colonel Maxim Volontov, SVR Budapest Section Chief.
Sakina Jaffrey as Trish Forsyth, CIA Station Commander.
Sergei Polunin as Konstantin, Dominika's former dance partner.
Sasha Frolova as Anya.
Sebastian Hülk as Sergei Matorin, a Russian operative and torture expert.
Kristof Konrad as Dimitri Ustinov.
Hugh Quarshie as Simon Benford.
Sergej Onopko as Simionov, a Russian operative and executioner.
Zsolt Anger as Russian ambassador in Budapest.

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