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Spoor (2017)

Spoor poster
Original title
Pokot
Directed by
Katarzyna Adamik, Agnieszka Holland
Genre
drama film, crime film, mystery film, thriller film
Country
Slovakia, Czech Republic, Germany, Poland
Runtime
2h 08m
Rated
18A
Rating
6.2 of 10 from 186 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

An elderly woman living in a remote Polish village begins investigating a series of strange deaths that happen to local hunters. As she follows the clues, she confronts the violent and secretive world around her.

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What happens

Spoor (Polish: Pokot) is a 2017 Polish crime film directed by Agnieszka Holland, adapted from the novel Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk. It was selected to compete for the Golden Bear in the main competition section of the 67th Berlin International Film Festival. At Berlin, the film won the Alfred Bauer Prize (Silver Bear). It was selected as the Polish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 90th Academy Awards, but it was not nominated. The Polish-language title, Pokot, is a hunting term that refers to the count of wild animals killed. The English title Spoor refers to the traces and tracks left behind by the hunted game. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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