Director: Ali Abbasi
Ali Abbasi directs this 2024 drama about the early career of a young New York real-estate figure and the ruthless lawyer who mentors him through the 1970s and 1980s.
What is The Apprentice about?
In 1970s New York, an ambitious young man from a wealthy real-estate family is trying to build a name for himself beyond his father's shadow. He falls under the influence of Roy Cohn, a combative attorney known for a win-at-all-costs approach to law and public life. Cohn takes him on as an unofficial protégé, passing along tactics for negotiation, publicity, and confrontation that shape how the younger man operates for the rest of his career. The film tracks their partnership across roughly two decades, following how the lessons learned in this period harden into a defined public persona, and how the relationship between mentor and student eventually shifts as the balance of power between them changes. It is framed as a character study of ambition and influence rather than a straightforward biography.
Cast & crew
Sebastian Stan plays the young protagonist opposite Jeremy Strong as Roy Cohn, with Maria Bakalova, Martin Donovan, and Stuart Hughes filling out the supporting cast of the era's New York business and legal circles.
Context & significance
An international co-production spanning Canada, Denmark, Ireland, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States, the film is a history-drama focused tightly on two men and the professional culture of New York real estate and law in the late twentieth century, rather than on wider political events.
Where & how to watch
The Apprentice is available on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, and the platform's interface is presented in Farsi for viewers in the diaspora. Browsing this page requires nothing; watching the film requires signing in with a K-Time account.