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Hiroshima
original title:
Hiroshima
country / year of production:
Great Britain
,
Germany
/
2005
original length:
90 min. , color
premiere:
genre:
docu dram
based on:
director:
Paul Wilmshurst
film script:
Paul Wilmshurst
producer:
cinematographer:
editor:
composer:
cast (role):
Ed Bishop
more:
plot synopsis:
This film is a mixture between documentary and drama and deals with the attack on Hiroshima on August 6th 1945. The film shows how the atomic bomb destroyed a whole city and killed masses of people.
keywords:
Hiroshima
,
atomic bomb
,
home front
,
ambush
,
air raid
,
made-for-TV film
war:
Second World War (1939-1945)
literature:
Mick Broderick (ed.). Hibakusha Cinema. Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and the Nuclear Image in Japanese Cinema. London/ New York: Kegan Paul Int., 1996.
Hans Herlin. Die Männer der Enola Gay. München: Heyne, 1978.
Stephen Walker. Hiroshima. Countdown einer Katastrophe. München: Bertelsmann, 2005.
remarks:
Homepage: http://www.zdf.de/ZDFde/inhalt/9/0,1872,2343561,00.html
Was filmed in Poland and Japan.
availability:
DVD