Operation Homecoming - Writing the Wartime Experience

original title:
Operation Homecoming - Writing the Wartime Experience
other titles:
Opération retour, (Operation Heimkehr - Schreiben über die Erfahrung im Krieg)
country / year of production:
USA / 2007 (x)
original length:
81 min. , color
premiere:
9 February 2007
genre:
Documentary
based on:
Andrew Carroll (ed.). Operation Homecoming: Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Home Front, in the Words of U.S. Troops and their Families. New York, NY: Random House, 2006.
director:
Richard Robbins
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plot synopsis:
This film decribes US-soldier's experiences in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and it's effect on their psychis. The enormous pressure of an always existing nameless enemy around them has totally changed their minds. They have become psychalogically disturbed.
keywords:
authenticity , shell shock , post-war era , returning soldiers
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"War against Terrorism"
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Was nominated for an "Oscar" in 2008.
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