POLAND · 2010

Essential Killing

Jerzy Skolimowski
survival fugitive war trauma cultural displacement humanity in extremity
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A Taliban soldier struggles to survive after he escapes his captors and flees into the Polish countryside.

Year2010
CountryPoland
DirectorJerzy Skolimowski
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