A Hologram for the King

Synopsis

Alan Clay, a struggling American businessman, travels to Saudi Arabia to sell a new technology to the King, only to be challenged by endless Middle Eastern bureaucracy, a perpetually absent monarch, and a suspicious growth on his back.

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Cast

Tom Hanks

Alan Clay

Sarita Choudhury

Dr. Zahra Hakeem

Sidse Babett Knudsen

Hanne

Ben Whishaw

Dave

Tom Skerritt

Ron Clay

Tracey Fairaway

Kitty Clay

David Menkin

Brad

Omar Elba

Yousef

Jane Perry

Ruby Clay

Amira El Sayed

Maha

Christy Meyer

Cayley

Khalid Laith

Karim Al-Ahmad

Jon Donahue

Ted

Michael Baral

Young Ron

Lewis Rainer

Young Alan

Megan Maczko

Rachel

Eric Meyers

Eric Randall

Waleed Elgadi

Sayad

Zaydun Khalaf

Mohammed

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Jay Abdo

Dr. Haddad

Crew

Art

• Uli Hanisch Production Design
• Claudio Magrini Construction Coordinator
• Kai Koch Supervising Art Director
• Abdellah Baadil Art Direction
• Marco Trentini Art Direction
• Daniel Chour Art Direction
• Redouane Nasserdine Art Department Coordinator
• Abdellah Baadil Assistant Art Director
• Niklas Schmidt Art Department Coordinator
• Laura Bach Set Designer

Camera

• Frank Griebe Director of Photography
• Tom Trambow Still Photographer
• Jan Hinrich Hoffmann Underwater Camera
• Sifeddine El Amine Still Photographer
• Lotfi El Gorda First Assistant Camera
• Frédéric Batier Still Photographer
• Marcus Pohlus Steadicam Operator
• Christian Almesberger Camera Operator
• Amine Boudour Camera Operator

Costume & Make-Up

• Pierre-Yves Gayraud Costume Design
• Oriol Nogues Assistant Costume Designer
• Heike Merker Hair Department Head
• Bettina Seifert Costume Supervisor
• Lisa Spengler Set Costumer
• Jan Kempkens-Odemski Makeup Artist
• Heike Merker Makeup Department Head
• Elisabeth Martirena Assistant Costume Designer
• Daniel Parker Makeup Designer

Crew

• David Salamon CG Supervisor
• Aladin Hasic Second Unit Cinematographer
• Sven Hübner Armorer
• Christopher Chaber Visual Effects Editor

Directing

• Tom Tykwer Director

Editing

• Alexander Berner Editor
• Manuel Scholz First Assistant Editor

Lighting

• Helmut Prein Gaffer
• Dietmar Haupt Rigging Gaffer

Production

• Tim O'Hair Producer
• Michelle Guish Casting
• Stefan Arndt Producer
• Uwe Schott Producer
• Gaby Kester Casting
• Gary Goetzman Producer
• Arcadiy Golubovich Producer
• Avy Kaufman Casting
• Alan Scott Neal Casting Associate
• Noureddine Aberdine Casting
• Mounir Saguia Casting
• Gastón Pavlovich Executive Producer

Sound

• Tom Tykwer Original Music Composer
• Johnny Klimek Original Music Composer
• Steve Little ADR & Dubbing
• Markus Stemler Sound Effects Editor
• Matthias Lempert Sound Re-Recording Mixer
• Carsten Richter Foley
• Frank Kruse Supervising Sound Editor
• Roland Winke Sound

Visual Effects

• Conrad Tambour Animation
• Dominik Trimborn Visual Effects Supervisor
• Benjamin Swiczinsky Animation
• Johannes Schiehsl Animation
• Robert Pinnow Visual Effects Supervisor
• Robert Aldag Visual Effects Coordinator
• Nina Knott Visual Effects Producer
• Rene Grasser Visual Effects Producer

Writing

• Tom Tykwer Screenplay
• Dave Eggers Novel

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