Toronto International Film Festival
“Killer elite” starts on October 27 at the Concorde film distribution in the German cinemas in Hamburg (19.08.2011) – in the presence of actor Jason Statham, Clive Owen and Yvonne Strahovski, and directed by Gary McKendry celebrates the highly exciting action-thriller “killer elite” on 10 September 2011 with a big gala screening on 36 Toronto International Film Festival world premiere. “Killer elite” tells the story of Danny (Jason Statham), who had actually already completed with his job as a special agent. However, his former mentor and friend Hunter (Robert de Niro) from a saudi Arabian Prince is kidnapped, Danny, has been forced to respond to the perfidious deal: Hunter is only freed when Danny manages to bring the three murderers who killed the sons of the Prince at that time in the war in Oman. For Danny begins a merciless hunting around the globe from Australia to Paris and London to the Middle East, where he is a pitiless cat-and-mouse game with the murderers and their cracked leader (Clive Owen) delivers… Based on the novel “The Feather Men” (1991) by Ranulph Fiennes, in which, the exception adventurer, researcher and former soldier of the British special air service describes his experiences, is “killer elite” an action-packed nerve tightrope, chasing the adrenaline through the veins. Under the direction of the Irish debutants Gary McKendry, who also wrote the screenplay, run next to old masters and double Academy Award winners Robert De Niro (“no limit”, “taxi driver”) Jason Statham (“The Expendables”, “the transporter”) and Clive Owen (“shoot ‘ em up”, “Children of Men”) to the acting performance. About Concorde film distribution: Concorde film rentals since 1980 and has brought since then over 400 films in German cinemas.The program titles each year consists of approximately 10-15 and features a varied mix of Arthousekino of top, German feature film and commercial productions in Hollywood.