Film screening: The Apprentice – Cinema under the stars
Location: Summer Cinema Arrigoni
Organizer: CKŠP Izola
Time: 9.30 pm
Director: Ali Abbasi / Canada, Ireland, Denmark / 2024 / 122 min / English
Iranian-Danish director Ali Abbasi (Border, Holy Spider) dramatizes Trump’s rise to power through a Faustian bargain with influential right-wing lawyer Roy Cohn. As the director puts it: “A success story that could only happen in America.”
New York, the 1970s. Young Donald J. Trump is determined to step out of his wealthy father’s shadow and make a name for himself on Manhattan’s real estate market. He finds an ally in Roy Cohn, a notorious political fixer who would become one of the most influential figures in his life. The powerful and controversial lawyer sees potential in the young mogul: he teaches his protégé how to gain wealth and power through lies, intimidation, and media manipulation. The rest is history...
The film is subtitled in Slovenian.
