New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Sony Classical releases OPERATION FINALE (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) with original music by Academy Award winner
Alexandre Desplat (The Shape of Water, The Grand Budapest Hotel). The soundtrack will be available for streaming, download and on CD August 24, 2018. Metro Goldwyn Mayer
Pictures (MGM) will distribute Operation Finale theatrically on August 29, 2018.
MGM's razor-sharp thriller, Operation Finale, brings to life one of the most daring covert operations in modern history. Starring Golden Globe® winner Oscar Isaac (Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Ex Machina) and Academy Award® winner Sir Ben Kingsley (Gandhi, Schindler's List), and the film vividly captures the ingenious and brilliantly executed mission to capture Adolf Eichmann, one of the chief architects of the Holocaust.
Fifteen years after the end of World War II, acting on irrefutable evidence, a top-secret team of Israeli agents travel to Argentina where Eichmann (Kingsley) has been in hiding together with his family under the alias "Ricardo Klement" and execute an extremely dangerous abduction. In attempting to sneak him out of Argentina to stand trial in
Israel while being pursued by the country's right-wing forces, agent
Peter Malkin (Isaac) is forced to engage Eichmann in an intense and gripping game of cat-and-mouse with life-and-death stakes.
Operation Finale is directed by Chris Weitz (About a Boy, The Twilight Saga: New Moon) from a screenplay by Matthew Orton. Oscar Isaac is also a producer, along with Brian Kavanaugh-Jones and Fred Berger under their Automatik company and Jason Spire's Inspire Entertainment.
Alexandre Desplat says about the soundtrack: "Writing a score for the abduction of Adolf Eichmann has been a tremendous challenge. Chris and I tried to bring the audience into the mind of the Mossad squad, struggling to succeed in one of the most famous chases of a Nazi official; a criminal with no regrets or remorse whatsoever, hidden in Argentina. Organizing the train transports of Jews throughout
Europe and supervising their systematic killings in villages or forests were some of Eichmann's tasks. The music I composed tries to modestly capture these elements of tragedy and madness. A group of 10 percussionists leads the London Symphony Orchestra into a Mephistophelian dance."
ABOUT ALEXANDRE DESPLAT
Composer, orchestrator and conductor
Alexandre Desplat is a two-time Academy Award® winner, nine-time Academy Award® Nominee, with over hundred scores and numerous awards to his credit and is one of the most worthy heirs of the French film scoring masters.
A true cinephile, his approach to film composition is not only based on his strong musicality but also on his understanding of film which allows him to intimately communicate with directors. Inspired by the works of Maurice Jarre, Bernard Herrmann, Nino Rota or Georges Delerue, he expressed his desire to compose for film early on but really made his decision after listening to John Williams' score to Star Wars.
After scoring 50 European films, with legendary French directors such as
Philippe de Broca and Francis Girod, he burst in 2003 onto the Hollywood scene with his evocative score to
Peter Webber's Girl With A
Pearl Earring earning him nominations at the Golden
Globe Awards, BAFTAs and European Film Awards.
His singular and remarkable scores for the films of Jacques Audiard showed a new musical voice and his composition for The Beat That My
Heart Skipped in 2005 earned him the
Silver Bear at the Berlinale as well as his first César.
Alexandre Desplat then started to expand his U.S. career keeping his European collaborations.
In 2007 he received his first Academy Award® nomination for Stephen Frears' The
Queen which earned him his first European Film Award. The same year he won the Golden Globe, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award and the World
Soundtrack Award for his score to John Curran's The Painted Veil, performed by Lang Lang.
He composed in 2008 for Florent Siri's Intimate Enemy, Ang Lee's Lust, Caution, and
David Fincher's The Curious Case Of
Benjamin Button, which earned him a second Oscar nomination and a fourth BAFTA and Golden Globe® nomination.
With his score for Roman Polanski's The
Ghost Writer in 2010, starting an inspiring relationship, he won a second César and a second European Film Award. The same year, he wrote the music for Twilight-New Moon by Chris Weitz, a platinum record, Anne Fontaine's Coco Before
Chanel and for Tom Hooper's The King's Speech for which he won the BAFTA, the Grammy Award and receives his fourth Academy Award® nomination and his fifth Golden Globe® nomination. In 2010-2011
Alexandre Desplat scored
David Yates' films Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows, Part 1 and Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows, Part 2, which became the third most successful movie of all time.
As eclectic as prolific, he wrote nine scores in 2011 including Terence Malik's Tree Of Life, Roman Polanski's Carnage, Wes Anderson's Fantastic Mr. Fox,
Daniel Auteuil's The Wells Digger's Daughter and
George Clooney's The Ides of March.
In 2012, keeping his artistic exchange with European directors,
Alexandre Desplat collaborated with Kathryn Bigelow for Zero Dark Thirty,
Matteo Garrone for Reality, Gilles Bourdos for Renoir, Jérôme Salle for Zulu, Wes Anderson for Moonrise Kingdom and Jacques Audiard for Rust And Bone, the latter of which he won a third César. He also scored Argo by Ben Affleck, which was awarded the Oscar for best film and earned
Alexandre Desplat a sixth nomination at BAFTA, as well as a fifth nomination at the Golden Globes® and the Academy Awards®.
In 2013 he scored
George Clooney's The Monuments Men, Roman Polanski's Venus In Fur and Stephen Frears' Philomena, for which he received his seventh BAFTA and his fifth Oscar nominations.
In 2014, he scored Gareth Edwards's blockbuster Godzilla and received a rare double Academy Award® nomination for his scores of
Morten Tyldum's The Imitation Game and Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel, which earned him a BAFTA, a Grammy Award® and his first Academy Award win.
In 2018,
Alexandre Desplat won his second Academy Award®, second Golden Globe® Award and third BAFTA for Guillermo del Toro's The Shape Of Water.
TRACKLIST:
Operation Finale
Sacrificed Children
Nazis Rising
Malkin's Memories
Setting Up Operations
Stakeout
Death
Killing in the Woods
Race to Airport
Solingen Blade
Number 45326
The Monster
Lost Children
Air Control
To Israel
Operation Finale (Orchestral)
Sorrow
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