# Essential Killing (2010)

> A captured Taliban fighter flees across an unfamiliar European wilderness, reduced to instinct, endurance, and the will to survive.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/movie/32259

## Facts

- Runtime: 84 min
- Genres: Thriller, War
- Director: Jerzy Skolimowski
- Cast: Vincent Gallo, Emmanuelle Seigner, David L. Price, Zach Cohen, Iftach Ophir, Nicolai Cleve Broch, Stig Frode Henriksen, Dariusz Juzyszyn
- TMDB rating: 5.9/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1561768/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: brisk
- Intensity: strong
- Complexity: layered
- Violence: graphic
- Mood: bleak, visceral, propulsive, serious film night, arthouse cinema night

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