Essential Killing (2010) on Netflix
Captured in Afghanistan, Mohammed is tortured at a secret detention center and flown to Poland with other prisoners. A convoy crash leaves him loose in a frozen forest, hunted by soldiers.
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Plot summary
After he attacks U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan, Mohammed is taken prisoner and tortured at a secret detention center. He is flown to Poland with other prisoners. When the armed convoy he is riding in goes off a steep hill, he finds himself free, on the run in a snow-covered forest behind enemy lines. A force that officially does not exist pursues him. He kills those who stray into his path and forages for food from nature and from the people he meets.
Cast
- Tracy Spencer Shippas Young Soldier in Suv
- Mark Gasperichas Head of Pursuit Team
- Phillip Gossas Military Doctor
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Essential Killing (2010)
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- Most of Essential Killing was shot at −35°C in high mountains that even a Snowcat could not reach, so the crew practically climbed to the set, and star Vincent Gallo had to run barefoot in the snow at those temperatures.
- Jerzy Skolimowski's starting point for Essential Killing came after he skidded off a winter road two kilometers from Poland's Szymany Airfield, which he had heard was rumored to be used by the CIA for flights carrying prisoners from the Middle East.
- At the 2010 Venice Film Festival, Essential Killing became the first film in the festival's history to take two major awards; Vincent Gallo was absent, and Jerzy Skolimowski accepted the Volpi Cup for him and urged him to come out of hiding in the audience.
- Venice jury president Quentin Tarantino revealed he had asked festival head Marco Mueller to break the festival's rules in order to honor Essential Killing, a change that would carry on into future editions.
