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DIRTY WAR (LE ULTIME 56 ORE)
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Completed - ITALIAN, ENGLISH - Action/Adventure, Drama - 106 minutes

Log Line

The film highlights how Army personnel of the “peace keeping” missions have died and are still dying, killed by cancer caused by radioactivity of "depleted uranium" contained in weapons and bullets.

Previous markets

  • Berlin EFM 2011 (Debut)
  • Cannes 2011 (Line up)
  • AFM 2012 (Line up)
  • AFM 2013 (Line up)
Full history

Year of production : 2010

Director(s) : Claudio FRAGASSO
Writer(s) : Rossella DRUDI
Cast : Gianmarco TOGNAZZI, Luca LIONELLO, Barbora BOBULOVA, Simona BORIONI, Primo REGGIANI

Producer(s) : HELES FILM PRODUCTION

Synopsis

Five years after the military intervention in the land-mine clearance in the areas of the Balkans, Kosovo and Afghanistan, many members of the Army fall ill with leukaemia having come into contact, without knowing, with particles of depleted uranium present in weapons. The destinies of two men will encounter, inside a hospital.

Production

Country(ies) : ITALY

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