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Essential Killing

    • Director

      Jerzy Skolimowski

    • Credits

      Producers:
      Cinematographer:
      Adam Sikora

  • Category

    Feature

The film follows the story of Mohammed, who is captured by the US military in Afghanistan and transported to a secret military black site. When the army convoy he is riding in plummets off a steep hill, Mohammed finds himself suddenly free and on the run behind enemy lines. A hostile, snow-blanketed forest, gradually reveals to be somewhere in the wilds of Eastern Europe. Relentlessly pursued by the military, Mohammed must constantly confront the need to kill in order to survive.

Notes courtesy of Screen Ireland

83 minutes, Poland, Norway, Ireland, Hungary, France, 2010, Colour

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