Robert Redford introduced a thriller about terrorists in Venice

Robert Redford showed at the Venice Festival outside the Triller's contest called “The Company You Keep”, which tells about the members of the Sinoptics terrorist group in America in the early 1970s, RIA Novosti reports.

This is one of the star premiere in the 2012 program: the main role is Jim Grant's lawyer, who, as it turns out at the very beginning of the action, is actually the name of the ex -terrorist nickname Slown, ”Redford himself played; The role of a young journalist from the provincial newspaper Ben Shepard, who was able to find this, went to Shaye Labafa, the key characters of the female are played by Susan Sarandon and Julie Christie.

“In fact, this is a classic story resembling“ outcasts ”: the story of a fugitive, who is forced to hide under a stranger’s name,” Redford explained on Thursday to journalists on Thursday.

The film is based on the novel of the same name by Nile Gordon and is related to the era, which has always been interested in Redford.

“I have long thought about taking something about the seventies, but only now, 30 years later, I realized that I had the right to tell this story. Now this is part of the past, earlier it was a living present,” he says.

At the same time, the director and actor emphasize, the film was not a historical study.

“This is about“ 30 years later ” - about what these people are experiencing, about how they rethink their beliefs of 30 years ago, about their motives and motives. And most importantly, this is a film about what the father can go for the sake of love for his daughter,” he said.

The hero of Redford in the film goes on the run, but promises a 12-year-old daughter, who recently lost his mother, who will certainly return to her.

Two other important motives of the picture, according to the director, are journalism, which remains the search for truth, despite the new forms of presentation and obtaining information, and the topic of the confrontation of generations.

“In fact, each generation receives its chance to change the world,” Redford is convinced.

At the same time, according to Labaf, of course, present -day youth is easier than contemporaries of Redford.

“We risk it, and they risked their lives,” he explained to reporters.

Redford himself admits that in his youth he did not participate in anti -war movement.

“I had a family and a career, I tried not to go into politics. But many of my friends participated in the movement, and I understood their motives, sympathized with them,” he says.