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Betrayed is a 1988 American spy thriller film directed by Costa-Gavras, written by Joe Eszterhas, and starring Debra Winger and Tom Berenger. The plot is roughly based upon the terrorist activities of American neo-Nazi and white supremacist Robert Mathews and his group The Order.
More than anything else, “Betrayed” is finally just very deeply confused. Costa-Gavras must have considered it a political film, Eszterhas undoubtedly saw it as a thriller, and Winger and Berenger, to give them full credit, interpret it as the complicated human stories of their characters.
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Jun 13, 2012 · After the Chicago killing of a controversial radio talk-show host by right wing extremists, FBI agent Winger goes undercover to investigate prime suspect Berenger.
Betrayed starts as a police thriller, and ends as a political thriller. Costa-Gavras paints a gloomy and pessimistic view of the racist movement in the US. A female FBI agent (Winger) infiltrates a group of white supremacists and gets caught up in her own romantic feelings for one of them.
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A rabid political film, dealing with an implausible FBI agent infiltrating a white supremacist organization via her love affair with a handsome farmer who turns out to be a murderous racist.
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Betrayed: Directed by Costa-Gavras. With Debra Winger, Tom Berenger, John Heard, Betsy Blair. An FBI agent posing as a combine driver becomes romantically involved with a Midwest farmer who lives a double life as a white supremacist.
