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Backstabbing for Beginners

A young program coordinator at the United Nations stumbles upon a conspiracy involving Iraq's oil reserves.

Director

Per Fly

Year

Genre

drama, history, romance

Box Office

N/A

Production

Fortitude International,Eyeworks Scandi Fiction,Creative Alliance,Unlimited Stories

Awards

1 nomination

Homepage

https://a24films.com/films/backstabbing-for-beginners

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Michael

Pasha Pasaris

Nashim Hussani

Christina Dupre

Jacqueline Bisset

Hassan

Ruth Zekra Kal

Daniela Lavender

Lily

Trevor

Rossif Sutherland

Rasnetsov

Brian Markinson

Justin Cutter

Kurdish Minister

Bearded Man

Kate

Abhek

Melina Pasaris

Reporter

Shauna MacDonald

Archives Clerk

Taxi Driver

Al-Rasheed Waiter

Baghdad Hospital Director

Ba'athist Bureaucrat

Bellman

Abdelhamid Abo Inane

Sick Little Girl

WSJ Editor

UN Council President

Turkish Businessman

Desperate Doc

US Customs Agent

Italian Field Observer

Jerome Vicolitto

Company Rep

Little Girl's Mom

Female CPA Guard

RAT's D-4

Nashim's Grandfather

Hassan Grennouni

Shop Owner

Abderrahim Samadi

Field Reporter

Award Presenter

Kurdish Imam

Abbas Abdulghani

Self

Self

Prisoner

United Nations Staff

Fabio Lusvarghi

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Subtitles by explosiveskull - Backstabbing for Beginners

Subtitles by explosiveskull

My name
is Michael Sullivan - Backstabbing for Beginners

My name is Michael Sullivan

How long have you been in the
lobbyist at Belasquian Banks? - Backstabbing for Beginners

How long have you been in the lobbyist at Belasquian Banks?

No, I just... I don't want to wake
up when I'm forty and discover - Backstabbing for Beginners

No, I just... I don't want to wake up when I'm for...

You know for as long
as I can remember - Backstabbing for Beginners

You know for as long as I can remember

He was killed in the bombing
of the U.S. Embassy in Beirut - Backstabbing for Beginners

He was killed in the bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Beirut

One of my earliest memories
is my father telling stories - Backstabbing for Beginners

One of my earliest memories is my father telling stories

Made it sound
like modern day Knights - Backstabbing for Beginners

Made it sound like modern day Knights

I wanted to follow
in his footsteps. - Backstabbing for Beginners

I wanted to follow in his footsteps.

By the fall of 2002
I had applied for a job - Backstabbing for Beginners

By the fall of 2002 I had applied for a job

And just
like my mother, - Backstabbing for Beginners

And just like my mother,

So I got you
something small, - Backstabbing for Beginners

So I got you something small,

Oh well,
it's their loss. - Backstabbing for Beginners

Oh well, it's their loss.

I'm sure you'll get it, you've
been working so hard for this! - Backstabbing for Beginners

I'm sure you'll get it, you've been working s...

♪ Happy Birthday
to you! ♪ - Backstabbing for Beginners

♪ Happy Birthday to you! ♪

Best candidates
keep getting hired away - Backstabbing for Beginners

Best candidates keep getting hired away

His mother's side,
but he's only 24 years old. - Backstabbing for Beginners

His mother's side, but he's only 24 years old.

I thought I would start with
some entry-level assignment, - Backstabbing for Beginners

I thought I would start with some entry-level assignment,

Special assistant to the
under secretary general. - Backstabbing for Beginners

Special assistant to the under secretary general.

Running the largest
humanitarian program - Backstabbing for Beginners

Running the largest humanitarian program

All I kept thinking
was, "Don't fuck this up." - Backstabbing for Beginners

All I kept thinking was, "Don't fuck this up."...

By Security Council
resolution 986, - Backstabbing for Beginners

By Security Council resolution 986,

Which basically
means that our office - Backstabbing for Beginners

Which basically means that our office

We are woefully behind schedule
on our funding status report - Backstabbing for Beginners

We are woefully behind schedule on our funding status report

Your predecessor
was due to brief - Backstabbing for Beginners

Your predecessor was due to brief

Listen, we think Oil for Food is
being gamed for private gain - Backstabbing for Beginners

Listen, we think Oil for Food is being gamed for private gai...

Possibly with help
from the inside, - Backstabbing for Beginners

Possibly with help from the inside,

I don't want
you to do anything - Backstabbing for Beginners

I don't want you to do anything

I was aware going in
that the Oil for Food program - Backstabbing for Beginners

I was aware going in that the Oil for Food program

The program budget was
10 billon dollars a year. - Backstabbing for Beginners

The program budget was 10 billon dollars a year.

The entire rest of the UN
operational budget was only two. - Backstabbing for Beginners

The entire rest of the UN operational budget was only two.

Special interest
circling like buzzards. - Backstabbing for Beginners

Special interest circling like buzzards.

Because of the
economic sanctions imposed - Backstabbing for Beginners

Because of the economic sanctions imposed

People were
starving and dying - Backstabbing for Beginners

People were starving and dying

The Oil for Food program
was designed to provide - Backstabbing for Beginners

The Oil for Food program was designed to provide

While at the same time,
preventing Saddam - Backstabbing for Beginners

While at the same time, preventing Saddam

Under UN supervision, - Backstabbing for Beginners

Under UN supervision,

Our job was to keep it funded
by making sure everything - Backstabbing for Beginners

Our job was to keep it funded by making sure everything

Yes, I sorted it as
always, a solution. - Backstabbing for Beginners

Yes, I sorted it as always, a solution.

Now we-we charted
a load of taxis, filled them, - Backstabbing for Beginners

Now we-we charted a load of taxis, filled them,

Well, just give me
the highlights kid, - Backstabbing for Beginners

Well, just give me the highlights kid,

Yes we have uhh, decreased
the malnutrition rate, - Backstabbing for Beginners

Yes we have uhh, decreased the malnutrition rate,

There are
however some umm, - Backstabbing for Beginners

There are however some umm,

The Kurds are getting shorted
uhh, wheat, milk, diesel fuel - Backstabbing for Beginners

The Kurds are getting shorted uhh, wheat, milk, diesel fuel

Saddam's hometown,
what a surprise? - Backstabbing for Beginners

Saddam's hometown, what a surprise?

There are also all these
after service fees uhh, - Backstabbing for Beginners

There are also all these after service fees uhh,

If you wanna take a look, I uhh,
highlighted and aggregated them - Backstabbing for Beginners

If you wanna take a look, I uhh, highlighted and aggregated ...

In some places it's
as much as 30 percent. - Backstabbing for Beginners

In some places it's as much as 30 percent.

The first rule of
diplomacy is that - Backstabbing for Beginners

The first rule of diplomacy is that

The Americans and The
British will never lift them, - Backstabbing for Beginners

The Americans and The British will never lift them,

Otherwise, keep your
cards, close to your vest. - Backstabbing for Beginners

Otherwise, keep your cards, close to your vest.

Your father
was a good man. - Backstabbing for Beginners

Your father was a good man.

You should be so lucky
as to have his heart. - Backstabbing for Beginners

You should be so lucky as to have his heart.

We crossed paths
a couple of times. - Backstabbing for Beginners

We crossed paths a couple of times.

Must have
been 79', 80'. - Backstabbing for Beginners

Must have been 79', 80'.

Fuck, I'm sorry. - Backstabbing for Beginners

Fuck, I'm sorry.

That must have been hard, a
boy growing up without a father. - Backstabbing for Beginners

That must have been hard, a boy growing up without a father.

What?
You have other plans? - Backstabbing for Beginners

What? You have other plans?

I was swept up
in the romance of it, - Backstabbing for Beginners

I was swept up in the romance of it,

More or less sketchy,
crazy dangerous and stranger - Backstabbing for Beginners

More or less sketchy, crazy dangerous and stranger

The country lived in a state
of permanent self-occupation. - Backstabbing for Beginners

The country lived in a state of permanent self-occupation.

Our Baghdad office is
going to present a problem. - Backstabbing for Beginners

Our Baghdad office is going to present a problem.

So the Security Council will be
forced to lift the sanctions, - Backstabbing for Beginners

So the Security Council will be forced to lift the sanctions...

Every six months we have to
justify our continued existence. - Backstabbing for Beginners

Every six months we have to justify our continued existence.

Our job right now is to write a
report for the Security Council - Backstabbing for Beginners

Our job right now is to write a report for the Security Coun...

No, never lie, - Backstabbing for Beginners

60 percent of the Iraqi
people are solely dependent - Backstabbing for Beginners

60 percent of the Iraqi people are solely dependent

Wheat, grain, milk, medicine,
essential infrastructure. - Backstabbing for Beginners

Wheat, grain, milk, medicine, essential infrastructure.

During our last ten months, we
have decreased malnutrition rate - Backstabbing for Beginners

During our last ten months, we have decreased malnutrition r...

It's hard to
overstate how badly Saddam - Backstabbing for Beginners

It's hard to overstate how badly Saddam

Friends of the regime could
get easy access to the medicine. - Backstabbing for Beginners

Friends of the regime could get easy access to the medicine.

Others less fortunate
were left to die - Backstabbing for Beginners

Others less fortunate were left to die

Thank him for uhh,
bringing this to me - Backstabbing for Beginners

Thank him for uhh, bringing this to me

He says there's at black
market with Oil for Food pills. - Backstabbing for Beginners

He says there's at black market with Oil for Food pills...

Or this innocent child: Please
explain to her why she cannot - Backstabbing for Beginners

Or this innocent child: Please explain to her why she cannot

Why she has to suffer because
the West begrudges Iraq, - Backstabbing for Beginners

Why she has to suffer because the West begrudges Iraq,

I promise I will do anything
I can to help your child. - Backstabbing for Beginners

I promise I will do anything I can to help your child.

It sickens me to have to stand
there and listen to your lies. - Backstabbing for Beginners

It sickens me to have to stand there and listen to your lies...

It's P.R., Christina, everyone
in the field is working so hard. - Backstabbing for Beginners

It's P.R., Christina, everyone in the field is working ...

Well, my reporter for
The Security Council - Backstabbing for Beginners

Well, my reporter for The Security Council

It'll never be
perfect and surely, - Backstabbing for Beginners

It'll never be perfect and surely,

You want me to sign off
on your moral relativism - Backstabbing for Beginners

You want me to sign off on your moral relativism

My report with
The Security Council - Backstabbing for Beginners

My report with The Security Council

And this,
Al Rasheed is ground zero. - Backstabbing for Beginners

And this, Al Rasheed is ground zero.

Mr. Mohammed,
my assistant. - Backstabbing for Beginners

Mr. Mohammed, my assistant.

All major intelligence
agencies are here, - Backstabbing for Beginners

All major intelligence agencies are here,

Information is everything;
the currency, the power. - Backstabbing for Beginners

Information is everything; the currency, the power.

Baby Bush thinks Saddam
disrespected his papa. - Backstabbing for Beginners

Baby Bush thinks Saddam disrespected his papa.

They're convinced democracy will
bloom here like a fucking flower - Backstabbing for Beginners

They're convinced democracy will bloom here like a fuck...

Putin wants Bush to fail,
China wants the new markets, - Backstabbing for Beginners

Putin wants Bush to fail, China wants the new markets,

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A young program coordinator at the United Nations stumbles upon a conspiracy involving Iraq's oil reserves.

User Rating: 0.0 (0 ratings)

Director: Per Fly

Writer: Per Fly, Daniel Pyne, Michael Soussan

Production: Fortitude International,Eyeworks Scandi Fiction,Creative Alliance,Unlimited Stories

Genre: drama, history, romance

Year: 2018

MetaScore: 48/100

ImdbRating: 6.3

BoxOffice: N/A

Released: 27 Apr 2018

Awards: 1 nomination

Homepage: https://a24films.com/films/backstabbing-for-beginners

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