Title: The Kill Team
Original Title: The Kill Team
Year: 2019
Info
- Country: USA Spain
- Length: 87 Minutes (1 hour 27 min)
- Genre: Action Drama Thriller
- Studios: Nostromo Pictures
- Distributor: La Aventura Audiovisual
Release Dates
- United States: October 25 2019
Plot
This film is a coproduction between Spain and United States based in real life events. It takes place in the Afganistan War in 2009. The young soldier Andrew Briggman (Nat Wolff) arrives in the field. He is ambitious, naive and quiet, which makes him different to the rest of his mates. He's part of a group lead by Sargent Deeks (Alexander Skarsgard) who shows himself as a man of principles, fraternal and imponent, a natural born soldier. Briggman feels inspired by Deeks and tries to follow his steps, which leads him to have a reckelss attitude.
When a farmer is found dead under musky circunstances, Briggman starts to suspect about Deeks. Soon, Briggman is certain that the crimes were commited by his fellow soldiers, killing innocent civilians and he will doubt about what to do. Andrew asks for help to his father, but their efforts fail. His moral tells him to report the crimes, but that would compromise his life dangerously.
This film is directed by Dan Krauss, who produce a documentary about this evetns and with the same title. In addition to Skarsgård and Wolff, the cast is formed by Adam Long, Jonathan Whitesell, Brian Marc, Osy Ikhile, Rob Morrow, Anna Francolini and Oliver Ritchie.
Cast
Director:
Sargento Deeks
Andrew Briggman
Rayburn
William Briggman
Weppler
Photos
Trivia
Spain
The movie is a coproduction between United States and sPAIN. The filming took place in the island of Fuerteventura, Canary Islands (Spain).
Documentary
In 2013, Dan Krauss directed a docuentary based on the same real-life events. It won Best Documentary award in 2013 in the Tribecca Film Festival and in 2015 in the Film Independent Spirit Awards.
Together again
Alexander Skarsgård and Osy Ikhile were both in The Legend of Tarzan (2016).
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