From Emmy Award winning filmmaker Carl Colby
THE MAN NOBODY KNEW is a new documentary which offers a son's powerful look at his mysterious father - legendary CIA spymaster and former CIA head, William Colby - whose life was straight out of a spy thriller. Told by Colby’s son Carl (an Emmy-Award winning filmmaker who directed the film and also serves as one of the film’s producers), the film offers a probing history of the CIA, a personal memoir of a family living in a highly secretive world and a fascinating look at the costs of a nation's most clandestine actions. First Run Features will open the film in New York later this September and in Los Angeles on October 14, with a national roll out to follow.
In THE MAN NOBODY KNEW, Carl Colby asks a series of powerful questions about a father who was a ghost-like presence in the family and who died under mysterious circumstances. He probes deeply into his father's role in designing clandestine actions and counter-insurgency -- tactics that we now see being implemented in Iraq and Afghanistan. The film is also fundamentally - at its heart - a gripping story of a secretive father and a son desperate for his love.
From the beginning of his career as an OSS officer parachuting into Nazi-occupied Europe, William Colby rose through the ranks of "The Company," and soon was involved in covert operations in hot spots around the globe. He swayed elections against the Communists in Italy, oversaw the coup against President Diem in Saigon, and ran the controversial Phoenix Program in Vietnam, which sparked today's legacy of counter-insurgency. But after decades of obediently taking on the White House's toughest and dirtiest assignments, and rising to become Director of CIA, Colby defied the President. Braving intense controversy, he opened up to Congress some of the agency's darkest, most tightly held secrets and extra-legal operations and was ultimately replaced by George H.W. Bush.
THE MAN NOBODY KNEW forges a fascinating mix of rare archival footage, never-before-seen photos, and an extensive array of interviews with the "who's who" of American intelligence, including former National Security Advisers Brent Scowcroft and Zbigniew Brzezinski, former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, former Secretary of Defense and Director of CIA James Schlesinger, as well Pulitzer Prize journalists Bob Woodward, Seymour Hersh, and Tim Weiner. Through it all, Carl Colby searches for an authentic portrait of the man who remained masked even to those who loved him most.
For more information go to: http://themannobodyknew.com
For downloadable images, notes, and trailer go to: http://firstrunfeatures.com/themannobodyknew_press.html
First Run Features is rolling out the film nationally following its New York, Los Angeles and Washington, DC openings.
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