Triage is a 2009

2009 in film

The year 2009 saw the release of many films. Seven made the top 50 list of highest-grossing films, and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that as of this year, their Best Picture category would consist of ten nominees, rather than five .- Highest-grossing films :Please note...

  drama film

Drama film

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 starring Colin Farrell

Colin Farrell

Colin James Farrell is an Irish actor, who has appeared in such film as Tigerland, Miami Vice, Minority Report, Phone Booth, The Recruit, Alexander and S.W.A.T....

, Paz Vega

Paz Vega

Paz Campos Trigo , better known as Paz Vega, is a Spanish actress.- Early life :Vega was born in Seville, Andalusia, Spain to a homemaker mother and a retired bullfighter father. Vega's younger sister has performed as a flamenco dancer. Vega has described her family as "traditional" and Catholic....

 and Christopher Lee

Christopher Lee

Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee, CBE, CStJ is an English actor and musician. Lee initially portrayed villains and became famous for his role as Count Dracula in a string of Hammer Horror films...

. The film’s plot is described as a dark tale of a photojournalist (Farrell) who comes home after a dangerous assignment in Kurdistan during the Anfal Genocide against the Kurdish people

Kurdish people

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. The film focuses on the psychological effects of war on a photo journalist

Photojournalism

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. It is based on the novel Triage

Triage (novel)

This article is about the novel by Scott Anderson, for the article is about the concept of triage as it occurs in medical emergencies and disasters see Triage. For the article about the film version of this novel see Triage . For other uses, see Triage .Triage is a 1998 novel by Scott Anderson...

by American veteran war correspondent

War correspondent

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 Scott Anderson

Scott Anderson (novelist)

Scott Anderson is an American novelist, journalist and a veteran war correspondent. He wrote novels Triage, Moonlight Hotel, The Man Who tried to Save the World, and War Zones...

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Plot

A man bearing the unseen scars of war struggles to recover amidst a family in chaos in this drama from writer and director Danis Tanovic. Mark Walsh (Colin Farrell) is a photojournalist who has earned a reputation for working in some of the most unforgiving locations on Earth, so when his editor Amy (Juliet Stevenson) asks him to cover the fighting in Kurdistan, Mark takes the assignment and thinks little of it, though his wife Elena (Paz Vega) is considerably more concerned. Mark and his friend and fellow photographer David (Jamie Sives) head off to the war full of confidence, but when Mark comes home alone after being separated from David, he seems like a different person, gaunt and unable to relax. Elena can't get Mark to talk about what he saw that left him so traumatized, so she invites her grandfather Joaquin (Christopher Lee), a veteran psychoanalyst with military experience, for a visit to see if he can help. But as Joaquin struggles to get Mark to open up, the grandfather's presence ignites an old conflict between him and Elena; the doctor was a supporter of Franco during the Spanish Civil War and served under the dictator's regime, and Elena has never been able to forgive him for his actions against the Spanish loyalists.

Cast

• Colin Farrell
  Colin Farrell
  Colin James Farrell is an Irish actor, who has appeared in such film as Tigerland, Miami Vice, Minority Report, Phone Booth, The Recruit, Alexander and S.W.A.T....
  
   - Mark Walsh
• Paz Vega
  Paz Vega
  Paz Campos Trigo , better known as Paz Vega, is a Spanish actress.- Early life :Vega was born in Seville, Andalusia, Spain to a homemaker mother and a retired bullfighter father. Vega's younger sister has performed as a flamenco dancer. Vega has described her family as "traditional" and Catholic....
  
   - Elena Morales
• Christopher Lee
  Christopher Lee
  Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee, CBE, CStJ is an English actor and musician. Lee initially portrayed villains and became famous for his role as Count Dracula in a string of Hammer Horror films...
  
   - Joaquin Morales
• Kelly Reilly - Diane
• Branko Đurić - Dr. Talzani
• Jamie Sives
  Jamie Sives
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   - David
• Reece Ritchie
  Reece Ritchie
  Reece Ritchie is an English actor.-Life and career:Ritchie was educated at Benjamin Britten High School in Lowestoft and later became a member of the National Youth Theatre...
  
  
• Juliet Stevenson
  Juliet Stevenson
  Juliet Anne Virginia Stevenson, CBE is an English actor of stage and screen.- Early life :Stevenson was born in Kelvedon, Essex, England, the daughter of Virginia Ruth , a teacher, and Michael Guy Stevenson, an army officer. Stevenson's father was in the army and was posted to a new place every...
  
  
• Ian McElhinney
  Ian McElhinney
  Ian McElhinney is an actor and director.-Personal life:He is married to playwright/actress Marie Jones. Together they started their own company, Rathmore Productions Ltd.-Filmography:-External links:...
  
  - Ivan

Locations

Shooting ran from April to June with locations in Ireland and at the Ciudad de la Luz studios in Alicante in Spain.