Completed - GERMAN, RUSSIAN - Drama - 81 minutes
There is safety in numbers, especially in extreme numbers. But in this case, the odds are truely bad. Chances for survival are low for Shamil, Sakri and all the others portrayed in this drama fighting a merciless Jihad. Yet surprisingly love comes in. And Berlin, becomes the new point of attack.
Year of production : 2019 Director(s) : Irina ARMS Writer(s) : Irina ARMS Cast : Lidia KREBS, Jan SID, Bernhard SCHÜTZ
Two stories unfold. One is unique, real coverage of war shot by a Chechen rebel 1996 - 2000 in Chechnya. We see the decimation of a group of young men surrounding Shamil Basayev, who was at the time the most wanted terrorist in theRussian Federation. The second story is a feature, and tells of a young refugee from Chechnya who comes to Germany and is thrown into prison in Berlin. He falls in love with a girl who translates for him, and enlists her help for him to flee. He then joins a terrorist group in Berlin that gives him the order to attack the Russian embassy while the rest of the gang goes after the U.S. embassy. The authentic war documentation is embedded in the film as the Chechen protagonist`s flashbacks and stream of consciousness, so that real and fictional levels of the story blend together as a whole.
Country(ies) : GERMANY
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WFA New York City 2019 (Competition)GRAFT 2019 (Competition)