• The Perdition in Liege

  • Henry Dunham
  • Set Up
  • Thriller
  • 2019
  • Black List
  • Hit List
  • 84.5
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Market: Mon, 16 Dec 2019Sold: Mon, 16 Dec 2019
AgentEmerson Davis, Charles Ferraro, Mikey Schwartz-Wright (United Talent Agency)
ManagerRyan Cunningham (Anonymous Content)
FinancierFilm Nation
ProductionThunder Road Productions
A prisoner of war in a Belgian POW camp undergoing abandonment survives an execution firing squad bychance and escapes by hiding among the dead. After removing his fallen compatriot’s dog tags to get homeand give their families solace, he attempts the fifty-mile journey south toward the allied stronghold, through thedeadly war-torn landscape, and before a hell-bent SS officer on his tail catches up to him.
After taking the dog tags of his executed comrades, the sole survivor of a POW camp treks to Allied territory but must evade the pursuit of a bloodthirsty Nazi so that he, as well as the dog tags, can make it back home
A young American soldier during WW2 who is trying to get back home to the United States to return his fellow fallen soldiers tags, while at the same time being murderously pursued by a leading German official.
An American POW survives a firing squad and intends to return his comrades' dog tags back to the Allied armies. As he is on this journey through the Belgian countryside, he is followed by a determined Nazi captain who intends to kill the survivor.
Film
Adventure, Drama, Period, Thriller, War, Dark, Man vs Nature, Military, Survival, Death, Escape, Gory, Guns, Nazi, Soldier, Violence/Violent, WWII
96
R
High
M
White / European
28
Fit
Inglorious Basterds, Dunkirk, Unbroken, The Revenant, 1917, Saving Private Ryan
1944, Three days
80% of the film takes place in the woods of WWII Belgium. Another key location is a farm and a farmhouse that is eventually burned to the ground. Brief moments include a frozen lake, Belgian towns, prison train, and a POW camp.
ALFRED (28) wakes from the mass grave in which a firing squad killed his troop in the POW camp at Liege.

A German legion approaches the ruins of the bombed and deserted POW camp, and Alfred decides to take as many dog tags from the fallen soldiers as possible before fleeing the grounds.

German captain, OTTO (35) follows the exact trail that Alfred took when he rose from the grave and walked around the camp to get clothes and food. Otto decides to follow the trail Aflred left leading away from the camp.

Alfred realizes that he is hiding from Otto on a frozen lake and uses his rifle to break through the surface to swim and escape before Otto can shoot him down.

LOUISE (35), a farm owner, lets Alfred come inside of her house while holding him at gunpoint so that he can warm up and have some shelter.

Alfred and Louise get to know each other and Alfred vocalizes his intent to return the dog tags to the Allied army.

Otto arrives at the farm and rains hell on Louise’s house, shooting through all the windows and eventually setting the house into flames. Louise is killed by Otto through...