American Passport

original title:
American Passport
other titles:
Amerikan Passport
country / year of production:
USA / 1998
original length:
82 min. , color
premiere:
24 January 1999, Slamdance Film Festival
genre:
Documentary
based on:
director:
Reed Paget
film script:
Reed Paget
producer:
Reed Paget
cinematographer:
Reed Paget
editor:
Kate MacDonald
composer:
Steven Samler
cast (role):
more:
plot synopsis:
American Passport accounts the story of photographer and documentarian Reed Paget, who in 1989 actually wanted to film the seven world wonders and ended up in the student uprisings leading to the massacre on Tiananmen Square in China. Since then he started travelling into regions of war or crisis to make his documentaries.
keywords:
photo journalist , media , communism , captivity
war:
literature:
Jürgen Domes, Marie-Luise Näth: China im Aufbruch: Darstellung, Analyse und Dokumente der Frühjahrskrise 1989 in der Volksrepublik China. Frankfurt a.M.: Lang, 1990. ISBN: 3-631-42807-3
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