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Directed by | Agnieszka Holland |
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Based on | Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk |
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Cinematography | Jolanta Dylewska Rafal Paradowski |
Edited by | Pavel Hrdlicka |
Music by | Antoni Lazarkiewicz |
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Running time | 128 minutes |
Countries | Poland Czech Republic Germany[1] |
Language | Polish |
Box office | $1 million[2][3] |
Spoor (Polish: Pokot) is a 2017 Polish crime film directed by Agnieszka Holland, adapted from the novel Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk.[4][5] It was selected to compete for the Golden Bear in the main competition section of the 67th Berlin International Film Festival.[6][4] At Berlin, the film won the Alfred Bauer Prize (Silver Bear).[7] It was selected as the Polish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 90th Academy Awards, but it was not nominated.[8]
The Polish-language title, Pokot, is a hunting term that refers to the count of wild animals killed. The English title Spoor refers to the traces and tracks left behind by the hunted game.