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22nd of May

22nd of May

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Status

Released

Release Date

Nov 17, 2010

Runtime

1h 32m

Genres

Fantasy, Drama, Thriller

User Score

59%

Original Title

22 Mei

Production Companies

IJswater Films BV, Revolver Films, Ryva

Director

Koen Mortier

Description

Sam wakes up, gets ready and goes to do his daily job. And then the unexpected happens. A bomb explodes in the center of the shopping mall where he works. He drags himself towards the entrance to save the victims. One by one he pulls them out, until something terrible takes place. In complete hysteria he runs off till he falls down from exhaustion. A woman's voice makes him raise his head. She's one of the victims he saved. She wants to know why the suicide bomber did it. This encounter projects him back in history and even in a surreal world. Thereafter he runs into everyone he saved and feels that their defeat shows many parallels with his own. Even his confrontation with the wrongdoer isn't that straightforward as he thought it would be and confronts him with the fact that guilt and innocence can be pretty much alike.