Camp Armadillo
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Camp Armadillo |
| Original title | Armadillo |
| Country of production | Denmark |
| original language | Danish |
| Publishing year | 2010 |
| length | 105 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Janus Metz Pedersen |
| script | Kasper Torsting (idea) |
| production |
Ronnie Fridthjof Sara Stockmann |
| music | Uno Helmersson |
| camera | Lars Skree |
| cut | Per K. Kierkegaard |
| occupation | |
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Soldiers from the Danish outpost HOLD 7 | |
Camp Armadillo (original title Armadillo ) is a Danish documentary film from 2010. The team led by the Danish director Janus Metz Pedersen accompanied Danish soldiers on their experiences in Helmand province during the Afghan war . This took place under the command of ISAF as a deployment of the Danish armed forces in Afghanistan . The recordings on and around the Armadillo outpost near Gereshk were shot with a helmet camera and thus show the soldiers' experiences and feelings up close.
action
The film begins with the last day of the soldiers in Denmark: the emotional moments when saying goodbye to friends and relatives and visiting a strip club.
Then they leave for Armadillo. The film shows soldiers on patrol. They distribute sweets and gifts to the Afghan children and question the civilian population about the Taliban. The everyday life of the soldiers is dominated by boredom. Telephone calls home, violent computer games and porn videos determine how people spend their free time.
The film later witnessed an armed conflict with the Taliban. A Danish commander falls victim to a roadside bomb. He is injured and needs treatment. A firefight is also shown in which five Taliban are killed and some are wounded.
Two Danes get medals and some are allowed to return to Denmark after six months.
Reviews
“Camp Armadillo looks like an arthouse-appropriate action film, with staff and narrative patterns typical of the genre. There is the naive who has to prove himself in battle, because war is an initiation ritual. There is the confident, chummy commander, the delimitation through the adrenaline rush of the moment, the doubts that are brushed aside with cool slogans. But the corpses are real. "
“Especially in the representation of the actually incomprehensible, the film-like use of cameras and the digital post-processing through individual accents make the horror Armadillos tangible. They are a technical comment from the filmmaker. Due to its artificiality, the film reminds the viewer that he is seeing a world that he actually knows nothing about. "
Awards
- 2010: Grand Prix de la Semaine de la Critique at the Cannes Film Festival 2010
- 2010: Award for the best international documentary at the Zurich Film Festival
- 2010: Nomination for the Prix ARTE at the European Film Awards 2010 in Tallinn , Estonia . See also European Film Awards / Best Documentary .
German production
The German version was produced by TV + Synchron Berlin .
watch TV
The film was broadcast on December 5, 2012 by the Franco-German TV channel arte .
DVD
- Janus Metz: Camp Armadillo , Danish / German, 101 min., Ascot Elite
See also
- Restrepo , an American documentary by Sebastian Junge and Tim Hetherington about an American unit stationed in the Korangal Valley in southeastern Afghanistan.
Web links
- Camp Armadillo in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Website of the film (en.)
- The Guardian
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stefan Reinecke: The invisible enemy in the daily newspaper on March 17, 2012
- ↑ Tim Geyer: Review on critic.de on May 11, 2011
- ↑ Blood on the hands, pictures in the helmet , in: FAZ , 11 May 2011, p. 32