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A Mighty Heart (trailler)



Mariane Pearl (Angelina Jolie), grávida de 6 meses, enfrenta uma corrida contra o tempo para salvar o seu marido Daniel Pearl (Dan Futterman), repórter do jornal Wall Street, raptado por terroristas da Al-Qaeda no Paquistão.

Transcendendo religião, raça e nacionalidade, Mariane tem a coragem de procurar abstrair-se de um mundo governado pela amargura e rancor desde o 11 de Setembro, expressando, da forma mais pura, o amor e felicidade partilhados com o seu marido e futuro pai, Daniel Pearl.

Um Coração Poderoso
A Mighty Heart
Estados Unidos - 2007
100 min - Drama
12 anos

Dan Futterman (Actor / Actriz)
Archie Panjabi (Actor / Actriz)
Angelina Jolie (Actor / Actriz)
John Orloff (Argumento)
Michael Winterbottom (Realização)

http://www.amightyheartmovie.com/

Daniel Pearl (October 10, 1963 – February 1, 2002) was an American journalist who was kidnapped and murdered in Karachi, Pakistan. At the time of his kidnapping, Pearl had been investigating the case of Richard Reid, the shoe bomber, and alleged links between Al Qaeda and Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI).

In March 2007, at a closed military hearing in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed said that he had personally beheaded Pearl.[1] Then he added, "for those who would like to confirm, there are pictures of me on the Internet holding his head."[2][3] In July 2002, Ahmed Omar Said Schiek, a British national of Pakistani origin was sentenced to death for the abduction and death of Daniel Pearl.

In April 2006, a documentary film The Journalist and the Jihadi was aired by HBO about the story of Daniel Pearl, narrated by Christiane Amanpour. In June 2007, a motion picture was released about the search for Daniel Pearl starring actress Angelina Jolie and actor Dan Futterman as Mariane and Daniel Pearl in Michael Winterbottom's A Mighty Heart (film). The film was based on the memoir written by Mariane Pearl.

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On January 23, 2002, on his way to what he thought was an interview with Sheikh Mubarak Ali Gilani at the Village restaurant in Karachi, Pearl was kidnapped by a militant group calling itself The National Movement for the Restoration of Pakistani Sovereignty. This group claimed Pearl was a CIA agent and — using the e-mail address kidnapperguy@hotmail.com[2] — sent the United States a range of demands, including the freeing of all Pakistani terror detainees, and the release of a halted U.S. shipment of F-16 fighter jets to the Pakistani government.

The message read:

We give you one more day if America will not meet our demands we will kill Daniel. Then this cycle will continue and no American journalist could enter Pakistan.

Photos of Pearl handcuffed with a gun at his head and holding up a newspaper were attached. There was no response to pleas from Pearl's editor, and from his wife Mariane.

Nine days later, Pearl was murdered and beheaded. Pearl's body was found cut into ten pieces and buried in a shallow grave in the outskirts of Karachi on May 16. When the police found his remains, Abdul Sattar Edhi arrived promptly on the scene, personally collected all ten body parts, and took them to the morgue; then his body was returned to the United States and he was interred in the Mount Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles, California.

(Although foul play was obvious, no autopsy was needed or performed. The subsequent video (see next section) made the sequence of events clear. Years later, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed confessed to cutting off Pearl's head, but didn't state whether he had cut his throat: it is likely that one person did both.)

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