Ulrich Mott is an eccentric and versatile social climber with grandiose plans to affect United States foreign policy. Encouraged in his attempts by his strategically chosen (and much older) wife, the well-connected journalist Elsa Brecht, Mott has a knack for making himself indispensable and impossible to ignore. The only one seemingly immune to his charms is Elsa's daughter Amanda, who might simply disapprove of her mother marrying a much younger man - or perhaps she senses something more sinister beneath the smooth-talking surface?
Christoph Waltz
as Ulrich Mott
Annette Bening
as Amanda Brecht
Vanessa Redgrave
as Elsa Brecht
Corey Hawkins
as Daniel Volker
Sergio Di Zio
as Gordon Nichols
Noam Jenkins
as Talabani
David Reale
as Weatherford
Paulino Nunes
as Prosecutor Kirshner
Ron Lea
as Detective Reid
Laura de Carteret
as Eleanor Price
Victoria Snow
as Peggy Mason
Saad Siddiqui
as Zahari
