Em 1973, Donald Trump He was a hungry, clumsy Queens real estate heir trying to earn respect in New York. Not especially bright or charming and without a plan to face a lawsuit against the family company for discriminating against black tenants, the young man was groping toward his dream: opening a luxury hotel near Grand Central Station. But that was until he met Roy Cohn, Senator Joseph McCarthy’s bully prosecutor turned Richard Nixon’s confidant, at a fashionable New York club.
This is the opening scene of The Apprenticewhich premieres in Brazilian cinemas on Thursday 17th. Written by former Trump columnist for Vanity Fair magazine Gabriel Sherman and directed by Iranian-Danish Ali Abbasi, the film portrays the rise of the young Trump in New York society, in the decades of 1970 and 1980, through the shameless tactics of Cohn – whose health was deteriorating due to HIV.
