Mission en enfer

original title:
Mission en enfer
other titles:
Mission in Hell, (Mission des Grauens)
country / year of production:
Switzerland / 2003
original length:
95 min. , color
premiere:
11 August 2003, Locarno Film Festival
genre:
Documentary
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director:
Frédéric Gonseth
film script:
Frédéric Gonseth
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plot synopsis:
In 1940 people with medical professions from Switzerland are asked to offer humanitarian help to the eastern front and to Warsaw. The mission is supposed to support international help, but just on the first view. First when the helpers are not allowed to help russian victims, they wonder. What the volunteers from Switzerland don't know at this point of time: Their government sold them to Germany, to replace their own people.
keywords:
doctors in war , nurse , field hospital , wound, injury , propaganda , order and obedience
war:
Second World War (1939-1945)
literature:
Nicholas O. Berry. War and the Red Cross. The unspoken mission. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997.

Reinhold Busch. Schweizer Ärztemissionen im II. Weltkrieg. Berlin: Wünsche, 2002.
remarks:
Was nominated for the "Swiss Film Prize" in 2004.
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