Profile Movie Cast, Plot and Everything to Know

A journalist risks her life by infiltrating militant extremist groups online.

Plot

What's the story about?

Plot

Follows an undercover British journalist in her quest to bait and expose a terrorist recruiter through social media, while trying not to be sucked in by her recruiter and lured into becoming a militant extremist herself.

Thriller

Top Cast

The lead cast starring in Profile.

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  Valene Kane

  Nowhere Special

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  Shazad Latif

  Wuthering Heights, Rogue Agent

Crew Behind the Film

The Profile behind-the-scenes crew and production team.

The film's director Timur Bekmambetov last directed Ben Hur and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.

Director

Timur Bekmambetov

Screenwriters

Britt Poulton
Timur Bekmambetov
Olga Kharina

Producers

Timur Bekmambetov
Olga Kharina

Production Details

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Key Facts

• Inspired by the 2015 nonfiction bestseller In the Skin of a Jihadist by a French journalist who now has round-the-clock police protection and has changed her name to Anna Érelle.
• Profile premiered at the Berlin Film Festival in 2018, receiving rave critics’ reviews and an Audience Award, and took the same prize at SXSW later that year.
• The unconventional thriller plays out entirely on a computer screen in the Screenlife format, pioneered by Bekmambetov. As a producer, his big break came with his Screenlife films Unfriended, which was picked up by Universal and grossed about $65 million worldwide — on a budget of $1 million, and Debra Messing and John Cho-led Searching picked up by Sony Pictures and making $75 million on an even smaller budget.

Production Updates for Profile

Mar 2021

Completed

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