Rescue Under Fire

Rescue Under Fire (Spanish: Zona hostil) is a 2017 Spanish war film directed by Adolfo Martínez set in Afghanistan. It stars Ariadna Gil, Raúl Mérida, Roberto Álamo and Antonio Garrido.

Rescue Under Fire
Theatrical release poster
Spanish	Zona hostil
Directed by	Adolfo Martínez
Screenplay by	Luis Arranz Andrés M. Koppel
Produced by	Javier López Blanco
Starring	Ariadna Gil Raúl Mérida Roberto Álamo Antonio Garrido Ingrid García Jonsson Jacobo Dicenta Ismael Martínez Nasser Saleh Mariam Hernández Ruth Gabriel
Cinematography	Alfredo Mayo
Edited by	Mapa Pastor Manuel Bauer
Music by	Roque Baños
Production companies	Tornasol Films Castafiore Films Hernández y Fernández PC Rescate AIE
Distributed by	eOne Films
Release date	10 March 2017 (2017-03-10)
Country	Spain
Languages	Spanish English
Budget	€5 million

Plot

Two Spanish Super Puma helicopters like the one that crashed

The plot dramatises a real August 2012 incident in Afghanistan north of Bala Murghab involving the rescue of a Spanish Army's wrecked Super Puma helicopter from the Taliban insurgency.^[1]

Cast

• Ariadna Gil as Capitán Varela^[2]
• Raúl Mérida [es] as Teniente Conte^[2]
• Roberto Álamo as Capitán Torres^[2]
• Antonio Garrido as Comandante Ledesma^[3]
• Ingrid García Jonsson as Cabo Sánchez^[2]
• Jacobo Dicenta [es] as Sargento Aguilar^[4]
• Ismael Martínez [es]^[5]
• Nasser Saleh^[5]
• Mariam Hernández as Sargento Castro^[4]
• Berta Hernández [es]^[5]
• David de la Torre^[5]
• Ruth Gabriel^[5]

Production

Rescue Under Fire was produced by Tornasol Films, Castafiore Films, Hernández y Fernández and Rescate AIE, and it had the participation of RTVE and Movistar+, support from the Spanish Ministry of Defence and Armed Forces, collaboration of ICAA and funding from ICO.^[6] It had a €5 million budget.^[7] It was shot in locations of the province of Almería (including the Tabernas Desert and the "Álvarez de Sotomayor" Military Base in Viator), the Madrid region (Colmenar Viejo) as well as in Tenerife (primarily indoor footage).^[8]

Release

Distributed by eOne Films,^[6] the film was theatrically released in Spain on 10 March 2017.

Reception

Andrea G. Bermejo of Cinemanía rated the film 31⁄2 out of 5 stars, considering the (military) film to be an oddity in a Spanish cinema currently ranging from the thriller to the comedy, also writing that the film manages to achieve "an accurate portrait of the military world that some will surely label as propagandistic and recruiting".^[9]

Marta Medina of El Confidencial assessed that Martínez "manages to choreograph and plan credible and exciting battles of a scale rarely seen in a Spanish production".^[10]

Raquel Hernández Luján of HobbyConsolas scored a 78 out of 100 points rating ("good"), praising the production design, the frenetic pace and the soundness of the characters.^[2]

Accolades

Roque Baños (composer), Javier López Blanco (producer) and Adolfo Martínez (director) attending the 73rd CEC Medals in Madrid (January 2018)

Year	Award	Category	Nominee(s)	Result	Ref.
2018	73rd CEC Medals	Best New Director	Adolfo Martínez	Nominated	[11]
		Best Music	Roque Baños	Nominated
	32nd Goya Awards	Best Original Song	"Rap Zona Hostil" by Fenyxxx and Roque Baños	Nominated	[12]
		Best Special Effects	Reyes Abades, Curro Muñoz	Nominated

See also

• List of Spanish films of 2017

References

1. Villatoro, Manuel P. (10 March 2017). "Así defendieron 7 heroicos militares españoles su helicóptero caído frente a decenas de insurgentes". abcplay – via ABC.
2. Hernández Luján, Raquel (10 March 2017). "Zona hostil - Crítica de la aventura bélica protagonizada por Ariadna Gil". HobbyConsolas.
3. Muñoz, Jacobo (12 June 2017). "Dos taquillazos españoles y "Manchester frente al mar", los DVD destacados de la semana". ABC.
4. Úbeda-Portugués, Alberto (8 March 2017). "Los estrenos del 10 de marzo. 'Zona hostil'. Tensa noche de asedio". Aisge.
5. "Rescue Under Fire" (PDF). Latido Films. Retrieved 9 June 2022.
6. "'Zona hostil' – estreno en cines 10 de marzo". Audiovisual451. 7 March 2017.
7. Tsanis, Magdalena (10 March 2017). "Ariadna Gil y Roberto Álamo viajan a 'Zona hostil'". El Periódico de Aragón.
8. Martínez, Diego (16 January 2021). "El rodaje de la película 'En zona hostil' en Tabernas con Ariadna Gil cumple 5 años". Diario de Almería.
9. Bermejo, Andrea G. (23 February 2017). "Zona hostil". Cinemanía – via 20minutos.es.
10. Medina, Marta (10 March 2017). "'Zona hostil': cine de acción a la americana 'made in Spain'". El Confidencial.
11. "'La librería' de Isabel Coixet fue la gran vencedora de las Medallas CEC 2018". Cine y Tele. 30 January 2018.
12. "Zona hostil". premiosgoya.com. Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias Cinematográficas de España. Retrieved 9 June 2022.