Five Fingers

Gifted Dutch Jazz pianist Martijn is kidnapped by terrorists after arriving in Morocco to set up a relief program for starving children. The terrorist leader, Ahmat, works to extract information about Martijn’s funding by removing one finger at a time, forcing the pianist to prove his innocence., Martijn heads to Morocco to set up a food charity, but he and a friend are taken captive by a terrorist, who resorts to brutal methods to extract information., After being abducted and tortured by terrorists, a young Dutch pianist slowly reveals the truth behind his trip to Morocco and proves that no one is quite who they seem to be., When a young Dutch idealist travels to Morocco to start a food charity he’s kidnapped by local terrorists and has to engage in mind games to learn his captors’ objectives., Writer-director Lawrence Malkin’s thriller Five Fingers casts Ryan Philippe as Martijn, a gifted Dutch jazz pianist who flies to Morocco to set up a food assistance program. On Middle Eastern soil, however, he and his security person, Gavin (portrayed by Colm Meaney) are promptly kidnapped by terrorists, dragged to a warehouse, chained down and blindfolded. The captors promptly kill Gavin and then begin systematic attempts to extract information from the pianist (about where he obtained the money to set up the program) – by cutting off his fingers one at a time. Martijn insists on his own ignorance, though in time it becomes clear that all is not what it seems. Laurence Fishburne portrays the head terrorist, Ahmat, Said Taghmaoui his sidekick, Youseff. Malkin co-authored the script with Chad Thurman.