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Selection Amnesty International Film Festival. |
Director: Masja Novikova
Netherlands, 2005, Documentary, English subtitles
, 99 minutes
The impact of the wars in Chechnya on the lives of three friends, through the cinematographic eye of one of them, Ramzan.
Ramzan, Rouslan en Islam grow up in Grozny, the erstwhile booming capital of Chechnya. Ramzan is working for Grozny Television, and has been filming politicians, rebels and ordinary people since the nineteen eighties, when they begin to realize to their astonishment that they are getting involved in a war. During the first bombings by the Russian army, on New Years Eve 1994, Ramzan is staying in an empty house. From the window he is filming the tanks rolling in and the destruction of his native city. Rouslan is the first victim: he is arrested by Russian soldiers and is found three days later by his wife. Ramzam dies during the bombing of Chechnian refugees. Islam is arrested too, but he released on bail. He is the only one of the three friends who survives the war and the total destruction of the city. The cinema version has been constructed from material for the VPRO program Backlighting.
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