Description

Anton Corbijn – Inside the American
Publisher: Schirmer Mosel, 2010
Hardcover, 160 pages
Size: 21,7 x 31 cm
New in seal

Anton Corbijn’s 2010 feature film is a suspense thriller titled The American, starring George Clooney.

Based on Martin Booth’s 1992 novel A Very Private Gentleman, the movie is set in Sweden and in the Abruzzo region of Italy. The protagonist is a gunsmith and sometime hitman who tries to change his life, only to find out the hard way that you can t undo the past. Not one to give up on his old life, director-cumphotographer Anton Corbijn daily took his stillcamera to the set, and this book is the proof of that.

Filled with candid on- and off set photographs accompanied by Corbijn s diary style writing, it provides a unique insight into the making of The American.