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A movie that seems to show faces of war that you do not get shown in the glossy news on Fox and CNN. the film made an appearance in Cannes, immediately rose controversy, and seems to get discussed passionately in Denmark. The camera followed a unit of Danish elite soldiers in Afghanistan. the result in video material appears like a description of how war turns men into dogs. and that is very much a challenge to the Danish - and Western - self-definition and understanding of what one believes to do over there.

The trailer - in English - can be seen in the video box in the middle of the article.

http://www.fr-online.de/top_news/266...eschichte.html

"It's not help them. This does not help a damn thing!"

I do not engage in the political controversy unfolding, I still have not seen the movie. I just think it is a good film of documentary character, showing not so much the Afghanistan war in full scale and reach, but what war does with people - even if these people see themselves as shining heroes.

Krieg vertiert. (Egon Bahr)