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.
Acting
Geršak's physical transformation into broken, surviving humanity.
Direction
Schaller refuses to sensationalize—makes it somehow worse.
Writing
Dialogue so sparse every word lands like a conviction.
Director
Stefan Schaller
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Sascha Alexander Geršak spent weeks in actual sensory deprivation research to prepare, because method acting apparently needed to be THIS authentic.
The real Murat Kurnaz was German-born and entirely innocent; Germany knew and did nothing. This film reopened parliamentary investigations in 2013.
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