"What better time for a robbery, than under the fog of war?"
Principal photography is now complete in Romania on The Last Drop, a heist movie set against the backdrop of World War II. The film stars Billy Zane, Michael Madsen, Nick Moran, Sean Pertwee and Karel Roden and introduces David Ginola in his first feature film role.
In a daring attempt to end the war by Christmas, Winston Churchill and the British High Command hatch an extraordinary plan - Operation Market Garden. 35,000 British troops are dropped behind enemy lines in German occupied Holland. In the midst of the largest airborne invasion in history, one small unit of men, codename ‘Matchbox', has its own hidden agenda.
The true target is a vast horde of Dutch gold and art treasures, plundered by the Nazis and stored behind an impregnable booby-trapped safe, imminently bound for Berlin. This near impossible heist will take place from beneath the noses of the spectacularly vile Kessler and his crack team of stormtroopers. When Matchbox are shot down short of their landing zone, the odds of their success seem hopeless. Seven very different British soldiers find themselves separated from the Allied invasion, on a collision course with three renegade German soldiers who want to lay claim to the horde. Whilst our men are for the most part civilians in military guise, their German counterparts are precision personified, highly motivated, cold, hard killers…
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