'The Laundromat' is based on the true story of Mossack Fonseca, the law firm at the heart of the Panama Papers, who have sued Netflix for defamation over the movie. But how close is the film to the real events?
A number of the characters in Netflix'sare based on real people, while the whole movie is adapted from a non-fiction book about the affair titledby Jake Bernstein.
Gary Oldman and Antonio Banderas, for example, play Mossack Fonseca partners Jürgen Mossack and Ramón Fonseca. while Jeffrey Wright plats Malchus Irvin Boncamper, an accountant who pled guilty to money laundering conspiracy in 2011. However, fact is blended with fiction, and the movie contains a number of fictional characters. One of these is Ellen Martin , who starts to investigate financial dealings in the Caribbean after a life insurance company will not pay out after her father died in a boat accident while the retirement condo she had her heart set on is sold to a Russian corporation.:"They are not portrayed doing anything in the film that they didn't do in real life.
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