Man Without a Gun
Release Date: 2009 - Wide Release
Distributor: Warner Independent Pictures
Film Genre: Political Thriller
Country: United States
Written by Stuart Beattie and based on Italian U.N. Diplomat Giandomenico Picco's memoir, published by Crown in 1999, chronicles Picco's 20-year-plus career as a high-level diplomat helping to negotiate the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan and to bring an end to the Iran-Iraq war. The story also follows Picco's role in resolving the Lebanon hostage crisis, which involved dangerous direct negotiations with the kidnappers in Beirut.