The Constant Gardener

Drama, Thriller

Ralph Fiennes	Justin Quayle
Rachel Weisz	Tessa Quayle
Hubert Koundé	Arnold Bluhm
Daniele Harford	Miriam
Danny Huston	Sandy Woodrow
Packson Ngugi	Officer in Morgue
Bernard Otieno Oduor	Journo
Damaris Itenyo Agweyu	Journo's Wife
Bill Nighy	Sir Bernard Pellegrin
Keith Pearson	Porter Coleridge
Hubert Kounde
Pete Postlethwaite
Nick Reding
Anneke Kim Sarnau
Donald Apiyo

Director	Fernando Meirelles
Producer	Simon Channing-Williams
Writer	John Le Carre; Jeffrey Caine; John le Carré
Musician	Alberto Iglesias

In a remote area of Northern Kenya, activist Tessa Quayle (Rachel Weisz) is found brutally murdered. Tessa's travelling companion, an African doctor, appears to have fled the scene, and the evidence points to a crime of passion. Members of the British High Commission in Nairobi assume that Tessa's widower, their mild-mannered and un-ambitious colleague Justin Quayle (Ralph Fiennes) will leave the matter to them, but they could not be more wrong. Haunted by remorse and jarred by rumours of his late wife's infidelities, Quayle surprises everyone by embarking on a personal odyssey that will take him across three continents to learn the horrifying truth of his wife's death. Using his privileged access to diplomatic secrets, he will risk his own life, stopping at nothing to uncover and expose the truth - a conspiracy more far-reaching and deadly than Quayle could ever have imagined. Based on John Le Carre's novel, The Constant Gardener is a breathtaking yet tragic love story told in retrospect and set against the political backdrop of an economic pharmaceutical conspiracy feasting upon the low value of life in Africa. Shifting back and forth, the romance between Justin and Tessa is wonderfully portrayed, building a vivid, gripping and heightened, yet justified, paranoia as the film develops.