Green Zone

original title:
Green Zone
country / year of production:
USA , France , Spain , Great Britain / 2010
original length:
115 min. , color
premiere:
12 March 2010
genre:
drama
based on:
Rajiv Chandrasekarans. Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone. New York, NY: Knopf, 2007.
director:
Paul Greengrass
film script:
Brian Helgeland , Rajiv Chandrasekaran
producer:
Tim Bevan , Eric Fellner , Lloyd Levin
cinematographer:
Barry Ackroyd
editor:
Christopher Rouse
composer:
John Powell
cast (role):
Matt Damon (Roy Miller) , Amy Ryan (Lawrie Dayne) , Aymen Hamdouchi (Ayad Hamza) , John Roberson (Infantry Sergeant) , Troy Brown (Soldier at WMD Site, als James Brown)
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plot synopsis:
In 2003 short after the conquest of Baghdad, US-officer Roy Miller and his troup impound the staffed departments. Now they work there. They leave the so called "Green Zone" to pursue a track, which seems to be suspicious. However everything happend on a different way. Miller doubts because of the real aim and he detects mysterious things in his own troup.
Now he gets to know the correspondent of the Washington-Post, Lawrie Dayne. He allied with her. Soon Miller became the hunting-object of his own army. An exciting fight of clarification and just for living beginns.
keywords:
conspiracy , single fighter , colour film , women during wartime , behind enemy lines , ambush
war:
Iraq War
literature:
Rajiv Chandrasekaran. »Imperial Life in the Emerald City«. Alfed A. Knopf 2006.
remarks:
"Racy action with Matt Damon, this time with a critically view on the US-Crew in Baghdad, in 2003 and the political lies of the mass extermination weapons." (www.cinefacts.de)

"An pretended thriller against the war which only tells another history of an hero in the war: Why things aren't like they seem to be." (www.critic.de)
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