BIFF Winter 2025 | The Phoenician Scheme (M)
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THE PHOENICIAN SCHEME
Classification: M – Injury detail
USA | Drama, Comedy | English | 101 mins
The story of a family and a family business.
If something gets in your way: flatten it.
1950. Anatole “Zsa-zsa” Korda (Benicio del Toro), enigmatic industrialist, one of the richest men in Europe, survives another attempt on his life (his sixth plane crash).
Korda’s wide-ranging, wildly complex, and ruthless business practices have made him an enemy to not just rival enterprises but also governments of every ideology across the globe — and a target for assassins.
Now he is in the final stages of a decades-long, career-defining project (Korda Land and Sea Phoenician Infrastructure Scheme), the expansive exploitation of a potentially rich/long-dormant region.
The risk to his personal capital has become incalculable. The threats to his life are ongoing. He chooses this moment to appoint and prepare a successor: his twenty-year-old estranged daughter Liesl (currently, a nun).
With personal tutor Bjorn (Michael Cera) in tow, Zsa-zsa and Liesl sweep across Modern Greater Independent Phoenicia meeting their assorted partners on a mission to close The Gap (a rapidly expanding financial shortfall) which Zsa-zsa quantifies as “Everything we got — plus a little bit more.”
Along the way, Liesl investigates the unsolved murder, a decade earlier, of Zsa-zsa’s first wife (her mother).
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Classification: M – Injury detail
USA | Drama, Comedy | English | 101 mins
The story of a family and a family business.
If something gets in your way: flatten it.
1950. Anatole “Zsa-zsa” Korda (Benicio del Toro), enigmatic industrialist, one of the richest men in Europe, survives another attempt on his life (his sixth plane crash).
Korda’s wide-ranging, wildly complex, and ruthless business practices have made him an enemy to not just rival enterprises but also governments of every ideology across the globe — and a target for assassins.
Now he is in the final stages of a decades-long, career-defining project (Korda Land and Sea Phoenician Infrastructure Scheme), the expansive exploitation of a potentially rich/long-dormant region.
The risk to his personal capital has become incalculable. The threats to his life are ongoing. He chooses this moment to appoint and prepare a successor: his twenty-year-old estranged daughter Liesl (currently, a nun).
With personal tutor Bjorn (Michael Cera) in tow, Zsa-zsa and Liesl sweep across Modern Greater Independent Phoenicia meeting their assorted partners on a mission to close The Gap (a rapidly expanding financial shortfall) which Zsa-zsa quantifies as “Everything we got — plus a little bit more.”
Along the way, Liesl investigates the unsolved murder, a decade earlier, of Zsa-zsa’s first wife (her mother).
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