Guy Ritchie's Der Pakt (2024)

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Is Guy Ritchie's The Covenant a true story? ›

While the film was extrapolated from a patchwork of actual events and experiences that happened during the Afghanistan war, it was not a direct biography of any one person in particular. As it happens, there is no actual person named John Kinley who fought in Afghanistan.

In December 2022, Ritchie revealed that the title had been changed from The Interpreter to The Covenant. The film was later officially titled Guy Ritchie's The Covenant, reportedly to distinguish it from the unrelated 2006 film of the same name.

In the movie, U.S. Army Special Forces Master Sergeant John Kinley (Gyllenhaal) and his squad are ambushed by a car bomb by the Taliban, resulting in the death of Kinley's interpreter.

The Afghan characters in the film mostly speak some dialect of Persian, and the memory of being surrounded daily by that language came flooding back. I could often understand the Afghan characters without the subtitles. The story concerns Army Sgt. John Kinley and his Afghan interpreter Ahmed.

Jake Gyllenhaal's character, John Kinley, is not a real person but is instead inspired by real sergeants who worked with interpreters. The movie highlights the unshakable bonds that developed between soldiers and interpreters and sheds light on the challenges they faced after the US military withdrew from Afghanistan.

On 22 December 2000, he married Madonna at Skibo Castle in Scotland. They had son Rocco (born 11 August 2000 in Los Angeles) and adopted a Malawian baby in 2006.

They make a daring escape together after Kinley's contacts come through and fly them out; the film ends with the two men finding a moment of peace once Ahmed's family's visas have been dispatched.

In Guy Ritchie's 'The Covenant,' Jake Gyllenhaal plays a special operations soldier with a JTAC patch on his uniform.

Jake Gyllenhaal: Master Sergeant John Kinley.

In short, "The Covenant" might not be a true story, but it is a story many veterans of the War in Afghanistan wish they were a part of. Many vets with a close connection to their interpreters see the way the U.S. left them behind as a betrayal, both of their promise and of the Afghans' service to the United States.

Was Guy Ritchie's The Covenant filmed in Afghanistan? ›

Guy Ritchie's The Covenant was filmed in Spain, not Afghanistan, but managed to beautifully capture the visual identity of the Middle East. Alicante, a popular tourist destination, was an interesting choice to represent Afghanistan due to its temperate hilly desert countryside.

Two men smoke opium (for medicinal purposes). Beer is drank between multiple men. We hear that a man used to work in the heroin trade. A man gets drunk and throws a beer bottle at a mirror in righteous anger.