Armadillo- Winner of Cannes - Follows Danish Soldiers in Afghanistan

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Run time: 14:41 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbNRY7CaKMI   Posted on YouTube: December 19, 2010 By YouTube Member: MrZbigniewBrzezinski Views on YouTube: 1172   Posted on DU: January 02, 2011 By DU Member: Ichingcarpenter Views on DU: 449

 
This is now being played on Danish TV and is waking up this nation
on how fucked up this fucking war is.



In February 2009 a group of Danish soldiers accompanied by documentary filmmaker Janus Metz arrived at Armadillo, an army base in the southern Afghan province of Helmand.

Metz and cameraman Lars Skree spent six months following the lives of young soldiers situated less than a kilometer away from Taliban positions. The outcome of their work is a gripping and highly authentic war drama that was justly awarded the Grand Prix de la Semaine de la Critique at this year's Cannes film festival.

But it also provoked furious debate in Denmark concerning the controversial behavior of certain Danish soldiers during a shootout with Taliban fighters. The filmmakers repeatedly risked their lives shooting this tense, brilliantly edited, and visually sophisticated probe into the psychology of young men in the midst of a senseless war whose victims are primarily local villagers.

Yet more disturbing than scenes in which Taliban bullets whiz past their cameras is the footage of the young soldiers as each tries, in his own way, to come to terms with putting his life constantly on the line.

from IMBD.....link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1640680/plotsummary

A MUST SEE FILM.... its in subtitles in English.

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1. This is Part 1 of 7

the rest you can find at my link.

This is a grown up award winning documentary which you will never see in the USA
except on line.

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2. Thanks on who gave me the +1 but a warning

you will see Danes and Afghanistans die and get blown away.
Some nudity when the troops go to a topless bar.