THE APPRENTICE

Official competition, Cannes 2024

Original language: English

Subtitles: Romanian

Directed by: Ali Abbasi

Country: Canada, Denmark, Ireland

Year of production: 2024

Length: 120 minutes

Genre: drama

The Apprentice is a dive into the underbelly of the American empire. It charts a young Donald Trump’s ascent to power through a Faustian deal with the influential right-wing lawyer and political fixer Roy Cohn.

Credits

Ali Abbasi – Director

Gabriel Sherman – Script

Kasper Tuxen – Cinematography

Olivier Bugge Coutté, Olivia Neergaard-Holm – Editing

Joakim Sundström, Thomas Hayek – Sound

Casting

Sebastian Stan

Jeremy Strong

Maria Bakalova

Martin Donovan

Catherine McNally

Charlie Carrick

Ben Sullivan