Zimbabwe slams Kidman movie

ZIMBABWE’S government claims that a recent Hollywood film starring Nicole Kidman was a “CIA-sponsored” campaign targeting President Robert Mugabe and has vowed to fight that “cultural and psychological” onslaught on Harare.

Acting Information Minister Chen Chimutengwende said The Interpreter about an octogenarian African leader who plans to address the United Nations General Assembly to ward off indictment by the International Criminal Court was a thinly-disguised swipe at Mugabe.

Directed by Hollywood veteran Sydney Pollack, the film stars Sean Penn and Kidman a UN translator from the fictional African nation of Matobo whose life turns topsy-turvy after she unwittingly learns of a plot to assassinate the country's hated leader before he addresses the UN.