The first trailer and poster for director Zat Batmanglij’s The East are now online and you can check both out below, courtesy of iTunes Movie Trailers.
Starring Brit Marling (who co-wrote with Batmanglij) Alexander Skarsgård, Ellen Page, Julia Ormond and Patricia Clarkson, The East follows Sarah Moss (Marling), a brilliant operative for an elite private intelligence firm whose top objective is to ruthlessly protect the interests of their A-list corporate clientele. She is assigned to go undercover to infiltrate an anarchist collective known for executing covert attacks upon major corporations. Living amongst them in an effort to get closer to their members, Sarah finds herself unexpectedly torn between two worlds as she starts to fall in love with the group’s charismatic leader, finding her life and her priorities irrevocably changed.