Der Sprachwissenschaftler David Pollock (Gregory Peck) wird von einem arabischen Premierminister beauftragt, eine Geheimbotschaft zu entschlüsseln, die auf ein Komplott gegen ihn hindeutet. Dabei lernt er Yasmin (Sophia Loren), die schöne und geheimnisvolle Gespielin des Verdächtigen kennen. Als Pollock sich in sie verliebt und der Wahrheit auf die Spur kommt, beginnt eine atemlose Jagd...
Über den Autor Julian Mitchell
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Julian Mitchell (b. 1935), is an English playwright, screenwriter and occasional novelist. He is best known as the writer of the play and film Another Country, and as a screenwriter for TV, producing many original plays and series episodes, including at least ten for Inspector Morse. Born in Epping, Essex, and educated at Winchester College and Oxford, he would publish six novels in the 1960s (all of them since reissued in Faber Finds) including the prizewinning The White Father (1964), before shifting his focus to theatre - a move which has come to appear permanent.
