OPERATION FINALE Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Now Available

Sony Classical releases OPERATION FINALE (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) with original music byAcademy Award winner Alexandre Desplat (The Shape of Water, The Grand Budapest Hotel). The soundtrack will be available for streaming, download and on CD August 24, 2018. Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures (MGM) will distribute Operation Finale theatrically on August 29, 2018.

MGM's razor-sharp thriller, Operation Finale, brings to life one of the most daring covert operations in modern history. Starring Golden Globe winner Oscar Isaac (Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Ex Machina) and Academy Award winner Sir Ben Kingsley (Gandhi, Schindler's List), and the film vividly captures the ingenious and brilliantly executed mission to capture Adolf Eichmann, one of the chief architects of the Holocaust.

Fifteen years after the end of World War II, acting on irrefutable evidence, a top-secret team of Israeli agents travel to Argentina where Eichmann (Kingsley) has been in hiding together with his family under the alias "Ricardo Klement" and execute an extremely dangerous abduction. In attempting to sneak him out of Argentina to stand trial in Israel while being pursued by the country's right-wing forces, agent Peter Malkin (Isaac) is forced to engage Eichmann in an intense and gripping game of cat-and-mouse with life-and-death stakes.

Operation Finaleis directed by Chris Weitz (About a Boy, The Twilight Saga: New Moon) from a screenplay by Matthew Orton. Oscar Isaac is also a producer, along with Brian Kavanaugh-Jones and Fred Berger under their Automatik company and Jason Spire's Inspire Entertainment.

Alexandre Desplat says about the soundtrack: "Writing a score for the abduction of Adolf Eichmann has been a tremendous challenge. Chris and I tried to bring the audience into the mind of the Mossad squad, struggling to succeed in one of the most famous chases of a Nazi official; a criminal with no regrets or remorse whatsoever, hidden in Argentina. Organizing the train transports of Jews throughout Europe and supervising their systematic killings in villages or forests were some of Eichmann's tasks. The music I composed tries to modestly capture these elements of tragedy and madness. A group of 10 percussionists leads the London Symphony Orchestra into a Mephistophelian dance."

ABOUT Alexandre Desplat
Composer, orchestrator and conductor Alexandre Desplat is a two-time Academy Award winner,nine-time Academy Award Nominee, with over hundred scores and numerous awards to his credit and is one of the most worthy heirs of the French film scoring masters.

A true cinephile, his approach to film composition is not only based on his strong musicality but also on his understanding of film which allows him to intimately communicate with directors. Inspired by the works ofMaurice Jarre,Bernard Herrmann,Nino RotaorGeorges Delerue, he expressed his desire to compose for film early on but really made his decision after listening toJohn Williams' score to Star Wars.

After scoring 50 European films, with legendary French directors such asPhilippe de BrocaandFrancis Girod, he burst in 2003 onto the Hollywood scene with his evocative score toPeter Webber'sGirl With A Pearl Earring earning him nominations at the Golden Globe Awards, BAFTAs and European Film Awards.

His singular and remarkable scores for the films ofJacques Audiardshowed a new musical voice and his composition forThe Beat That My Heart Skippedin 2005 earned him the Silver Bear at the Berlinale as well as his first Csar.

Alexandre Desplatthen started to expand his U.S. career keeping his European collaborations.
In 2007 he received his first Academy Award nomination forStephen Frears'The Queenwhich earned him his first European Film Award. The same year he won the Golden Globe, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award and the World Soundtrack Award for his score toJohn Curran'sThe Painted Veil, performed byLang Lang.

He composed in 2008 forFlorent Siri'sIntimate Enemy,Ang Lee'sLust, Caution, andDavid Fincher'sThe Curious Case Of Benjamin Button, which earned him a second Oscar nomination and a fourth BAFTA and Golden Globe nomination.

With his score forRoman Polanski'sThe Ghost Writerin 2010, starting an inspiring relationship, he won a second Csar and a second European Film Award. The same year, he wrote the music forTwilight-New MoonbyChris Weitz, a platinum record,Anne Fontaine'sCoco Before Chaneland forTom Hooper'sThe King's Speechfor which he won the BAFTA, the Grammy Award and receives his fourth Academy Award nomination and his fifth Golden Globe nomination. In 2010-2011Alexandre DesplatscoredDavid Yates'filmsHarry Potter And The Deathly Hallows, Part 1andHarry Potter And The Deathly Hallows, Part 2, which became the third most successful movie of all time.

As eclectic as prolific, he wrote nine scores in 2011 includingTerence Malik'sTree Of Life,Roman Polanski'sCarnage,Wes Anderson'sFantastic Mr. Fox,Daniel Auteuil'sThe Wells Digger's DaughterandGeorge Clooney'sThe Ides of March.

In 2012, keeping his artistic exchange with European directors,Alexandre Desplatcollaborated withKathryn BigelowforZero Dark Thirty,Matteo GarroneforReality,Gilles BourdosforRenoir,Jrme SalleforZulu,Wes AndersonforMoonrise KingdomandJacques AudiardforRust And Bone, the latterof which he won a third Csar. He also scoredArgobyBen Affleck, which was awarded the Oscar for best film and earnedAlexandre Desplata sixth nomination at BAFTA, as well as a fifth nomination at THE GOLDEN GLOBES and the Academy Awards.

In 2013 he scored George Clooney's The Monuments Men,Roman Polanski'sVenus In Fur andStephen Frears'Philomena, for which he received his seventh BAFTA and his fifth Oscar nominations.

In 2014, he scoredGareth Edwards's blockbusterGodzilla and received a rare double Academy Award nomination for his scores ofMorten Tyldum'sThe Imitation GameandWes Anderson'sThe Grand Budapest Hotel, which earned him a BAFTA, a Grammy Award and his first Academy Award win.

In 2018, Alexandre Desplat won his second Academy Award, second Golden Globe Award and third BAFTA forGuillermo Del Toro'sThe Shape Of Water.

TRACKLIST:

1. Operation Finale
2. Sacrificed Children
3. Nazis Rising
4. Malkin's Memories
5. Setting Up Operations
6. Stakeout
7. Death
8. Killing in the Woods
9. Race to Airport
10. Solingen Blade
11. Number 45326
12. The Monster
13. Lost Children
14. Air Control
15. To Israel
16. Operation Finale (Orchestral)
17. Sorrow

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