5 Days of War
5 Days of War also known asDays of August is a 2011 action film by Finnish director Renny Harlin. The story is about the RussoGeorgian War over the Russianbacked breakaway republic of South Ossetia in Georgia, including the events leading up to the conflict.
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. ........
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