Standard Operating Procedure

original title:
Standard Operating Procedure
country / year of production:
USA / 2008
original length:
116 min. , color
premiere:
D: 12 February 2008, Berlin International Film Festival
genre:
Documentary
based on:
director:
Errol Morris
film script:
producer:
Julie Ahlberg
cinematographer:
Robert Chappell
editor:
Andy Grieve
composer:
Danny Elfman
cast (role):
Christopher Bradley (MP Frost) , Sarah Denning (MP Hauman) , Joshua Feinman (MP Elliot) , Christopher Bradley , Sarah Denning , Joshua Feinman
more:
plot synopsis:
12 pictures from the jail Abu Ghraib in Bagdag have changed the Iraq-war and gave a new image to the USA. But there is still a central question: are the pictures evidences for a systematic torture in the jail or show they only the few “black sheeps”? The Documentation by Errol Morris shows the context of the pictures. Why have they been made? What does they show not? Morris talks to the persons who have made them and to them who are showed. Who are they? What have they think while picturing?
keywords:
photo journalist , journalism , prisoner camps , war crimes
war:
"War against Terrorism"
literature:
remarks:
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Won the "Silver Berlin Bear" in 2008; was in addition to this the first documentary ever to be nominated at the Berlin Film Festival.
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