Five Years ( Kurnaz - Fünf Jahre Leben ) ( 5 Years )

Five Years (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Kurnaz - Fünf Jahre Leben
Alternate Title: 5 Years
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Rotterdam International Film Festival
Stockholm Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
German ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
German ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Germany ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
92 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (2.35:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2013 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )

Directed By:
Stefan Schaller

Written By:
Stefan Schaller

Actors:
Sascha Alexander Gersak ..... Murat Kurnaz
Ben Miles ..... Gail Holford
Marc Hodapp ..... PV2. Malone
Özkan Akdogan ..... Prisoner
Nevzet Akgül ..... Friend at wedding
Ayfer Akin ..... Woman at funeral
Sinan Al-Kurikchi ..... Elyas
Amir Al-Sudani ..... Soldier
Bahattin Alkan ..... Friend at wedding
Zafer Alkan ..... Prisoner
Engin Ambuluto ..... Friend at wedding
Özkan Arslan ..... Prisoner
Abbas Assaf ..... Prisoner
Hemen Atari ..... Muslim in Mosque
Ulas Ates ..... Friend at funeral
Claudius Auer ..... Soldier
Tayfun Aydin ..... Soldier
Mustafa Ayvalik ..... Mortician
Halil Badan ..... Friend at wedding
Tayfun Bademsoy ..... Murat's father
Çetin Baris ..... Muslim in Mosque
Burak Basar ..... Prisoner
Ahmet Basri ..... Imam in Mosque
Nico Birnbaum ..... Soldier Rodriguez
Helin Boral ..... Friend at wedding
Sinem Boral ..... Friend at wedding
Renée Boxill ..... PFC. Jablonski
Denis Brandes ..... Soldier
Oskar Brown ..... PV2. O'Reilly
John Burnett ..... CPL. Baker
Rigo Burow ..... Soldier
Sava Burow ..... Soldier
Hasan Basri Calkan ..... Muslim in Mosque
Kerem Can ..... Selcuk
Ozan Cankayar ..... Soldier
Ayse Cizergil ..... Family member at funeral
Bahri Deniz ..... Funeral director
Cihan Dogac ..... Soldier
Bekir Dündar ..... Prisoner
Eray Egilmez ..... Issa
Hasan El Mustapha ..... Muslim in Mosque
Mustafa El Mustapha ..... Prisoner
Mohamed Hussein El-Sayed ..... Kaya
Siir Eloglu ..... Rabiye Kurnaz
Shawkat Eltouny ..... Prisoner
Ahmet Erdogan ..... Friend at wedding
Pinar Erincin ..... Fathima
Ty Fellenberg ..... PFC. Cain
Kirill Galetski ..... PFC. Nunnally
Jeff Gielkens ..... PV2. Iverson
Anita Guy ..... Woman in Kebab Restaurant
Ayla Gülcan ..... Friend at wedding
Sezai Gürer ..... Muslim in Mosque
John Haduska ..... Soldier
David Ali Hamade ..... Yousuf
Sven Heußner ..... Soldier
Aaron Hildebrand ..... Sebastian
Timur Isik ..... Akhmal
Petar Jekic ..... Prisoner
Nihat Kalkan ..... Prisoner
Birgül Kaou ..... Friend at wedding
Ersin Karadayi ..... Prisoner
Nikola Kastner ..... Dani
Stacey Kent ..... PV2. Lake
John Keogh ..... Smith
Ulas Kilic ..... Ali
Christian Klischat ..... Border Police Officer
Alex M. Kowall ..... Soldier
Birkan Kutlu ..... Friend at wedding
Arni Lamer ..... Muslim in Mosque
Dietrich Limpert ..... Prisoner
Wolf Lindsrot ..... Soldier
Oswaldo Díaz Medina ..... Prisoner
Tarkan Mengi ..... Friend at wedding
Torsten Michaelis ..... Police Officer
Kayan Monteiro ..... Prisoner
Ulisse Montorfano ..... Prisoner
Manuel Mustafic ..... Muslim in Mosque
Kimba Mutanda ..... Prisoner
Yavuz Oktar ..... Friend at funeral
Baris Olgun ..... Prisoner
Daniel Omerovic ..... Muslim in Mosque
Fetija Omerovic ..... Muslim in Mosque
Michael Paradis ..... PV2. Gabriel
Pedro Perez ..... Prisoner
Henry Irwin Pesch ..... PV2. Poletti
Kim Pfeiffer ..... PFC. Dales
Patriq Pinheiro ..... Stackhouse
Martin Prokopf ..... Soldier
Trystan Pütter ..... Collins
Kida Khodr Ramadan ..... Cem
Matthew Rose ..... SGT. Farley
Leila Rozario ..... Soldier
Michael S. Ruscheinsky ..... PV2. Eaton
Sibel Saglam ..... Friend at funeral
Kais Setti ..... Prisoner
Emanuelle Simboli ..... Soldier
Omar Martinez Simon ..... Friend at wedding
Kirk Smith ..... SSG. Kaufman
Alexander Sommer ..... Boxer in Gym
Tekin Suzan ..... Imam at funeral
Melih Tonyali ..... Friend at wedding
Resal Topal ..... Friend at wedding
Cemal Tural ..... Prisoner
André Volke ..... Soldier
Christofer von Beau ..... SFC. Haines
Joseph Weaver ..... SFC. Quessenberry
Salko Yasarevic ..... Muslim in Mosque
Burak Yigit ..... Oktay
Savas Yitik ..... Prisoner
Arif Çelik ..... Muslim in front of Mosque
Serdar Çelik ..... Prisoner

Synopsis:

Kurnaz is German, and was arrested in Pakistan in 2001. He was handed over to the US authorities then detained at Guantánamo for over five years. Despite unimaginable torture, Kurnaz never gave up his innocence. Based on a true story. Turkish-German Murat Kurnaz was held from 2001 to 2006 in American detention camps in Afghanistan and at Guantánamo Bay. He was 19 when, as a fresh convert to Islam, he was on a pilgrimage to Pakistan and was promptly arrested on suspicion of terrorism. 5 Years is based on true events and tells his story: how he was tortured and interrogated continuously and mercilessly at Guantánamo Bay. The film concentrates on the harsh struggle between Kurnaz and his American interrogator, Gail Holford, who tries to win his trust in order to get him to confess, while the physical and psychological torture goes on. It cost Kurnaz enormous willpower to maintain his innocence under this pressure. Stefan Schaller chooses to seldom show the violence explicitly. He lets the imagination of the viewer do the work, which makes the horror of Kurnaz's detention even more insistent.

Imagine you are 19 years old. School is over, driving license in the pocket, first love, you live on your own... It's an overall sensation of freedom and the feeling no one can stop you! Most people remember this period of time, when they were 24, 25 years old, as the best time of their life with the most impact. Now imagine this period of your life gets wiped out. Five years gone - snatched away from you. Instead you get arrested and tortured in a cell of six square meters in the US detention facility of Guantanamo Bay. No explanation as to why. No evidence. No trial. And with no hope to ever come free. Inconceivable. Unthinkable. This is exactly what happened to Murat Kurnaz (Sascha Alexander Gersak), a young man from Bremen (Germany) of Turkish parentage.'Can you remember the last time you were alone - I mean, really alone? No one to talk to, nothing to read, no phone, no computer, no iPod, no television, no radio, no activity, no companion? Psychiatrists say that if you try this, you should not do it for longer than a day!', says lawyer Sabin Willet 2008 in a hearing in front of the Committee for Foreign Affairs and Human Rights, Washington D.C. Murat Kurnaz put up with it for much longer! In fact, he put up with it for exactly 1727 days in prison - in the US detention facility of Guantanamo Bay - including one year of complete isolation.Murat Kurnaz gets interrogated, mistreated, humiliated and tortured. He is supposed to confess an alleged collaboration with the Taliban combats in Afghanistan. He never saw a regular court or ever got officially charged for a verdict, let alone did he have the opportunity to defend him self. He had to wait. He had nothing else left to do. 5 YEARS is not only the story of Murat Kurnaz, but the story of the Guantanamo system, a system that leads itself ad absurdum. To tell that story, Murat Kurnaz is the ideal protagonist. His 'hero's journey' let's us understand, how the system spins round and undermines the rule of law, which it is actually supposed to be defending.

How Murat Kurnaz ended up in Guantanamo Bay is a mysterious story. 5 YEARS investigates the psychological aspect of this endless and unjustified 'imprisonment' where Kurnaz had to endure never ending physical and psychological torture.

This product was added to our catalog on Friday 07 February, 2014.

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