Essential Killing

Snowy forest. Footsteps. A captured man escapes into an alien landscape, pursued by unseen forces, driven by animal instinct. Skolimowski's stark thriller is a brutal survival poem.

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Jerzy Skolimowski directed Essential Killing in 2010. See Jerzy Skolimowski's full filmography, where to start with Jerzy Skolimowski, or where to go after you've seen everything by Jerzy Skolimowski.

Essential Killing was released in 2010 (EN original-language production), with a runtime of 84 minutes.