Directed by: Saul Metzstein Script: John Paul Chapple, Steve Attridge Producer: Sam Taylor, Mike Downey, Michael Cowan, Jason Piette Production company: Film and Music Entertainment, Spice Factory, WizzFilms, Ex Cinematography: Francois Dagenais Editing: Anne Sopel Music: Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson, Charlie Mole Cast: Jason Biggs, Natascha Mcelhone, Jeremy Northam, Michael Ironside
Format: 35mm Running time: 101'
Synopsis Qangattarsa military base, Greenland. Rudy Spruance is lost. Dropped off in the middle of no-where in the frozen wastes of the arctic. As he comes round later in an Army hospital that doesn’t officially exist, Rudy understands what it is to be on the sharp end of a ‘small clerical error’. The base’s commanding officer, Colonel Woolwrap, is an ever-so-slightly crazed maverick who sees in Rudy a younger version of himself. There’s also Sergeant Irene Teale – beautiful, intelligent and most importantly, sane. Unfortunately, she’s the colonel’s girlfriend. As Rudy pursues Irene, he uncovers the secret of The Wing: a hospice for American casualties from one of Woolwrap’s reckless missions in the Vietnam war. The ‘patients’ in the Wing are drugged unconscious, fed through tubes, and kept secret from the world. They are to be kept secret until the very end of their lives. Woolwrap has been sitting in Qangatarrssa waiting for the last of his men to pass away. Meanwhile, the ‘patients’ remain unconscious, vegetative, erased as the men they once were. Except for Guy X.
Awards Taormina International Film Festival 2005 Best Film, Best Actor, Best Director
Directors Biography Saul Metzstein, born December 30, 1970, is a Scottish film director. Selected filmography: 'Syntax Era' (2009), 'Guy X' (2005), 'Late Night Shopping' (2001).
Location and screening schedule: Tuškanac Cinema, Friday, October 23rd at 19.00
