Operation Nightbreaker

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Movie
German title Operation Nightbreaker
Original title Nightbreaker
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1989
length approx. 99 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Peter Markle
script Howard L. Rosenberg (story Atomic Soldiers ), TS Cook
production William R. Greenblatt
music Peter Bernstein
camera Ronald Víctor García
cut Stephen E. Rivkin
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Operation Night Breaker is an American film drama from the year 1989 of the book by Howard L. Rosenberg, based on a real case. It was directed by Peter Markle and produced by William R. Greenblatt. The film describes the experiments on soldiers during the nuclear tests in the Nevada desert in the 1950s.

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Dr. Years later, at an awards ceremony, Brown is confronted with his military past as a doctor and the associated experiments on soldiers during several atomic bomb tests.

In the Nevada desert in the 1950s, the US is testing multiple atomic bombs and the psychological and physical effects on soldiers. Dr. Brown had just finished his training as a doctor when he came to the US Army's secret experiments.

He oversaw the questioning of soldiers before and after the atomic bomb tests. As the film progresses, it becomes clear that the military leadership is deliberately exposing the soldiers to the dangers of the tests. For example, the radiation limits were raised to order the soldiers closer to where the atom bomb was ignited, and units were moved closer and closer to the bombs. In one of the last tests, two squads are dropped off at different locations near the location of the bomb and ordered by headquarters to man the trenches in the so-called three-mile zone. Dr. Brown volunteers to join one of the squads - the one closest to the bomb. When it becomes clear a few minutes before the ignition that no trenches have been dug and the whereabouts of the troops is confirmed by headquarters as correct, Dr. Brown's nerves and immediately flees the area. The troop leader orders the soldiers to hold their position and lie flat on the ground, and then go into pursuit of the fleeing Brown. Brown still manages to get a certain distance when he falls and escapes behind a boulder before the troop leader reaches him and the countdown to the ignition begins. The troop leader asks Brown to return to the previous position, Brown vehemently refuses. At that moment the atomic bomb explodes and the force leader is pushed several meters across the desert floor by the blast wave of the detonation.

These soldiers confront Dr. Brown at the award ceremony in his honor for the invention of an implant for pain suppression by means of continuous drug delivery with it, because they hope for support in their legal battle with the Army over their recognition of the pension and medical expenses from the consequential damages. Instead of giving his prepared speech, Dr. Brown told the assembled audience about the tests and his involvement in them, and how he got to know the sterile soldiers who were now suffering from cancer (e.g. leukemia ).

criticism

  • film-dienst : The well-cast, narrated with vivid flashbacks, attacks the information policy of the US military authorities about the radiation damage that occurred in the 1950s with the comparatively considerate means of television dramaturgy.

Awards

TS Cook won the WGA Award from the Writers Guild of America in 1990 .

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