Essential Killing
- Vincent Gallo: Mohammed
- Emmanuelle Seigner: Margaret
- Zach Cohen: Americans 1
- Iftach Ophir: Americans 2
- Nicolai Cleve Broch: Helicopter Pilot 1
- Stig Frode Henriksen: Helicopter Pilot 2
- David Price: investigation officer
- Tracy Spencer Shipp: Young soldier in an SUV
- Mark Gaspersich: Chef Tracker Team
- Phil Goss: Military doctor
- Klaudia Kaca: Woman on bike
- Dariusz Juzyszyn: Lumberjack
- Raymond Josey: American Soldier
- Robert Mazurkiewicz: Hunter
- Janusz Woitarowicz: Margaret's husband
- Paweł Baranek: Drunk Farmer 1
- Marcin Gałażyn: Drunk Farmer 2
- David Jefferson: American Soldier
- Donnell Knox: American Soldier
- Geo D. Olivier: American Soldier
- Kamil Ruszecki: Soldier
- Marek Stanisław Łukasik: Soldier
- Jérôme Dassier: SUV - Driver
- Greed Marring: Fischer
Essential Killing ( German: necessary or essential killing ) is a political thriller by Polish director Jerzy Skolimowski from the year 2010 with the actors Vincent Gallo and Emmanuelle Seigner. Essential Killing premiered at the International Film Festival of Venice in 2010 on September 6, 2010.
Action
Add an Afghan desert a suspected Taliban fighters captured by U.S. troops, then tortured and interrogated by waterboarding. Then he shall be brought to a secret prison in Europe. However, it succeeds as a result of a chance to escape to the snow-covered forests of Poland. From then on he fights in an unusually cold for him environment for survival. He is chased by the Americans with helicopters, dogs and search teams through the forest and escapes them. On his flight and encounters with forest workers and other locals he can always just under survive - but often at the expense of other people. Badly wounded, he eventually found in a lonely woman in the forest some help. She sends him on horseback then away again. The film ends with the sight of unoccupied, the rider stained with blood horse - the fate of man is obvious.
Criticism
" The film describes the chain of violence beyond political partisanship phenomenologically as part of a sinister momentum. Thanks to its precise protagonist succeed expressive because sustainable disturbing scenes that make escape drama to suggestive accusation against any form of inhumanity. "
More
- The director Jerzy Skolimowski said to the film that it was not clear whether it was at the hunted by a terrorist or an innocent man.
Awards
- International Film Festival of Venice 2010 Special Jury Prize
- Coppa Volpi for Best Actor: Vincent Gallo
- CinemAvvenire Award: Best Film in Competition
- 25th Mar del Plata Film Festival Golden Astor for Best Picture
- Silver Astor for Best Actor: Vincent Gallo
- ACCA Award (Argentine film Reviewers Association): Best Film in the International Competition
- 36th Polish Film Festival Eagle for Best Picture
- Eagle for Best Director: Jerzy Skolimowski
- Eagle for Best Music: Paweł Mykietyn
- Eagle for Best Editing: Réka Lemhényi / Maciej Pawliński