Day Night Day Night

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Day Night Day Night
other titles:
Jour nuit, jour nuit, (Zwei Tage zwei Nächte)
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94 min. , color
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F: 25 May 2006, Cannes Film Festival
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A young woman arrives at New York, for the first time in her life. She is 18 maybe 19 years old, not pretty, not ugly, with noc accent, and no member of a special ethnic group- totaly witout atracting attention. She mad herself avaiable to an organisation of suicide bombers and now has come to fullil her mission: a suicide bombing on the Time Square. The film follows the young woman step for step two day and two nights long. The organisation prepares her for the mission. She reads a message in front of a TV camera, gets dressed and recieves a backpack with the bomb. She waits, she is ready. Then the action takes place. She is going to the Time Square, alone. Te city, her noise, the people ling in her, her lights are overwhelming her. Finally she reaches the street, where she should press the detonator. She knows, that there is no chance to go back...

literature:
Christoph Reuter. Selbstmordattentäter - Warum Menschen zu lebenden Bomben werden. München: Goldmann, 2003.
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