5 Days of War
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Official teaser poster
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| Directed by | Renny Harlin |
| Produced by | Renny Harlin George Lascu Mirza Davitaia Koba Nakopia |
| Written by | Mikko Alanne David Battle |
| Starring |
Andy García Val Kilmer Richard Coyle Emmanuelle Chriqui Rupert Friend Johnathon Schaech Dean Cain Rade Šerbedžija Antje Traue Heather Graham Mikheil Gomiashvili Mikko Nousiainen |
| Music by | Trevor Rabin |
| Cinematography | Checco Varese |
| Edited by | Brian Berdan |
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RexMedia
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| Distributed by | Anchor Bay Entertainment (US) |
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Running time
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120 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English Georgian Russian |
| Budget | $12 million |
| Box office | $316,944 |
5 Days of War (also known as 5 Days of August) is a 2011 action film by Finnish director Renny Harlin. The story is about the Russo-Georgian War over the Russian-backed breakaway republic of South Ossetia in Georgia, including the events leading up to the conflict.
The film was released in Georgia as 5 Days of August, and in other countries as 5 Days of War and also City on Fire.
In 2007, during the Iraq War, a Georgian contingent of the coalition forces saves the life of American reporter Thomas Anders (Rupert Friend), although one of his colleagues (Heather Graham) is killed in the process. One year later, in 2008, he returns to Los Angeles, California but soon goes to Georgia on the advice of some of his friends in Tbilisi, who suspect that a large conflict is brewing. He, along with his cameraman Sebastian Ganz (Richard Coyle), delve deeper into Georgian life as conflict escalates and they get caught in the crossfire when an air raid strikes a local wedding they stumble upon. With members of the wedding party (Emmanuelle Chriqui), and the help of a Georgian soldier (Johnathon Schaech) who had earlier saved them in Iraq, their mission becomes getting their footage of an atrocity by Russian irregulars out of the country. But they find themselves faced with international apathy due to the opening of the 2008 Olympic Games. Their flight leads them to the Battle of Gori.
The film ends with a long series of testimonials from Georgian citizens who lost family members during the conflict.
Filming started in October 2009, in Tbilisi. Filming took 36 days with a budget of 12 million dollars.
According to Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, the film was not financed by the Georgian government; however one of the producers, David Imedashvili, said that the initial funding for the project came from a Georgian government fund. According to Georgian media the movie was financed by Koba Nakopia, a parliamentarian from the ruling United National Movement party of Saakashvili. Also credited as producer are director Renny Harlin, George Lascu and Mirza Davitaia, the current Georgian State Minister for "diaspora issues", who at the time of filming was the Georgian Deputy Minister, Ministry of Culture, Monument Protection and Sports.
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