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Director
Johann Feindt ...
Production company
Zero Fiction Film GmbH ...
Director of photography
Johann Feindt
Editor
Stephan Krumbiegel
IDF Events
2006 East Silver
Sales
Global Screen

White Ravens - Nightmare in Chechnya

Weisse Raben - Alptraum Tschetschenien, Germany, 2006, 92 min, Digi Beta, Human Rights

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Russia's nightmare - Chechnya. When they went to war, they were young and naive; they returned disillusioned and scarred for life.Petya and Kiril - who've just turned 18 - volunteers who serve on the front in Chechnya. Katya, a nurse, works in a field hospital in the war zone. None of them are the same when they come back. Crippled physically and emotionally, abandoned with their experiences of mutilations, torture and death.Over a three-year period Johann Feindt and Tamara Trampe observe the returnees trying to cope again in a society that represses awareness of the war. The Committee of Mothers of Russian Soldiers is the only place where they, along with the helpless parents, find like-minded people they can talk to.

Director:

Johann Feindt, Tamara Trampe

Director of photography:

Johann Feindt

Editor:

Stephan Krumbiegel

Sound:

Paul Oberle

Languages:

Chechen, German, Russian

Subtitles:

English