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The Wakhan Front

2015 · 100 min

A quietly unsettling descent into uncertainty, where the vast, indifferent landscape and creeping disappearances leave you disoriented and uneasy.

Directed by: Clément Cogitore
Genres: Drama, Fantasy, War
Starring: Jérémie Renier, Swann Arlaud, Kévin Azaïs

Overview: Afghanistan, 2014. As the withdrawal of troops approaches, Captain Antarès Bonassieu and his squad have been assigned a surveillance mission in a remote valley of Wakhan, on the border of Pakistan. Despite Antarès and his men’s determination, control of the secluded valley will slowly fall out of their hands. One dark night, soldiers begin to mysteriously disappear in the valley.

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Directed by: Clément Cogitore
Genres: Drama, Fantasy, War
Starring: Jérémie Renier, Swann Arlaud, Kévin Azaïs

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Tone: eeriestrength 3 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
bleakstrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: isolation
war
mystery
survival
fate
Places: wilderness
military
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: None
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex none

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Action	3
Horror	4
Humour	1
Realism	7
Romance	0
Tension	7
Darkness	7
Complexity	7
Emotional weight	7

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Genres: drama, fantasy, war
Directed by: Clément Cogitore
Written by: Thomas Bidegain, Clément Cogitore
Starring: Jérémie Renier, Swann Arlaud, Kévin Azaïs, Marc Robert, Finnegan Oldfield, Christophe Tek, Clément Bresson, Sâm Mirhosseini
Cinematography: Sylvain Verdet
Runtime: 100 min
Country: Belgium, France
Languages: French, Persian

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