The East is debuting at Sundance and so get everyone who can’t attend the festival interested, a trailer has been released for director Zal Batmanglij’s film. The movie stars Brit Marling, Alexander Skarsgard and Ellen Page.
Here’s the synopsis: ‘In THE EAST, Sarah Moss (Marling) is a brilliant operative for an elite private intelligence firm whose top objective is to ruthlessly protect the interests of their A-list corporate clientele. She is assigned to go undercover to infiltrate an anarchist collective known for executing covert attacks upon major corporations. Living amongst them in an effort to get closer to their members, Sarah finds herself unexpectedly torn between two worlds as she starts to fall in love with the groups charismatic leader, finding her life and her priorities irrevocably changed.’
No UK release date is currently set.