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Ishtar

Directed by Elaine May

ComedyAdventure

Two terrible lounge singers get booked to play a gig in a Moroccan hotel but somehow become pawns in an international power play between the CIA, the Emir of Ishtar, and the rebels trying to overthrow his regime.

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Lyle Rogers

Chuck Clarke

Isabelle Adjani

Shirra Assel

Jim Harrison

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Vittorio Storaro

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Ishtar is about two terrible lounge singers get booked to play a gig in a Moroccan hotel but somehow become pawns in an international power play between the CIA, the Emir of Ishtar, and the rebels trying to overthrow his regime.

Who directed Ishtar?

Elaine May directed Ishtar.

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