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Synopsis: In February of 2009, a group of Danish soldiers accompanied by documentarian Janus Metz arrived at Armadillo, an army base in the southern Afghan province of Helmand. Metz and cinematographer Lars Skree spent six months following the lives of young soldiers situated less than a kilometre from Taliban positions. The result 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 the 2010 Cannes film festival. But it also provoked furious debate in Denmark concerning the controversial behavior of certain Danish soldiers during a shoot-out with Taliban fighters. The film-makers 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
Genre: Documentary, War
Director(s): Janus Metz
Production: New Yorker
  10 wins & 16 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.6
Metacritic:
72
Rotten Tomatoes:
90%
NOT RATED
Year:
2010
105 min
$10,347
Website
86 Views


Here are the shower containers.

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That's the Green Zone.

Observe as much as possible.

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when there's combat,

you're obviously more exposed -

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- so don't just stand there staring.

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"walk-ins" stop just over there

and call for an interpreter.

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It doesn't take long to figure out

if they're dicking around -

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- or if it's something useful.

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- You had some questions.

- Yes.

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How far north

from Armadillo can we go -

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- before the Taliban get active?

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About 800-1000 m

north of Armadillo.

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From up here we can draw a line

almost up to the Helmand River.

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This area here is basically ours.

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His objective is to move south

and isolate us so we can't get out -

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- and to diminish our influence on

the locals. That's what he wants to do.

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Our patrolling forces him to meet us

here and fight in this narrow pass.

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These people are former mujahedeen

and used to fight the Russians -

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- in the exact same area, so they're

used to fighting a superior force.

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They're not afraid.

Ten men might attack forty.

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Being outnumbered doesn't

stop them. Not at all.

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- They've got big balls

- That's for sure.

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Did you treat the ones who were killed

and wounded in December?

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Unfortunately me and J were the ones

who found the dead on 1 2. 19.

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we were first on the spot. I grabbed

a detector and started sweeping.

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As we went around the vehicle, the

f***ing beam from my headlamp -

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- caught this guy right in his face.

He was staring, but dead, of course.

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I closed his eyes

and covered up his face.

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And the last guy ...

There wasn't much left of him.

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I collected body parts for six hours.

Everything.

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Fingers, a hand in a glove,

a knee joint, a heart lying around ...

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It's hard to describe what

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