title: Dirty Hands (2008 drama film)
text: # Dirty Hands (2008 drama film)
  
  Dirty Hands is a 2008 political drama. The story shows war's cyclical nature and the psychological and human destruction ultimately caused to both sides.
  
  ## Plot
  
  Five Middle Eastern captives fight to retain their sanity and dignity in the face of their American interrogators, who in turn struggle with demons of their own.
  
  ## Cast and crew
  
  * Consultant: U.S. Army Interrogator Colonel Robert Klein (Army interrogator in Iraq and Afghanistan; combat veteran in Iraq and Panama)
  * Casting Director: Mali Finn (The film was one of Finn's last projects as casting director before her retirement.)
  
  ## Screenplay awards and nominations
  
  * Media Arts Fellowships Screenplay nominee (2007)
  * Tribeca Film Festival's All-Access Screenplay nominee (2005)
  * Roy W. Dean Grant Screenplay finalist (2005)
  