Jarhead

original title:
Jarhead
other titles:
(Jarhead - Willkommen im Dreck)
country / year of production:
USA / 2005
original length:
123 min. , color
premiere:
4 November 2005
genre:
action
based on:
Anthony Swofford. Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles. New York: Scribner, 2003.

Anthony Swofford. Jarhead. Im Krieg. Erinnerungen eines US-Marines. Köln: Kiepenheuer und Witsch, 2003.
director:
Sam Mendes
film script:
William Broyles , Anthony Swofford
producer:
Bobby Cohen , Lucy Fisher
cinematographer:
Roger Deakins
editor:
Walter Murch
composer:
Thomas Montgomery Newman
cast (role):
Jake Gyllenhaal (Anthony "Swoff" Swofford) , Scott MacDonald (D.I. Fitch) , Peter Sarsgaard (Troy) , Jamie Foxx (Staff Sgt. Sykes) , Lo Ming (Bored Gunny) , Jake Gyllenhaal , Scott MacDonald , Peter Sarsgaard , Jamie Foxx , Lo Ming
more:
plot synopsis:
"Jarhead" is based on the memoir of Anthony Swofford, called "Swoff", who tells about his experiences during the Gulf War in 1991.
At the age of 20 Swoof comes as a sniper of the Marines to the Middle East. After leaving a training camp he sets out under Sergeant Sykes with a heavy rucksack into the desert. Here they suffer from the heat and the invisible Iraqi soldiers.They can only bear their time there due to their friendship, black humour and sarcasm.
The soldiers are in an unknown country, in a war they do not understand and which is moreover fought in the air and they just wait for something to happen. In the meantime they hang around, ply football with gas masks or bet on scorpion fights.
keywords:
desert , snipers , boot-camp , behind enemy lines
war:
Second Gulf War (1991)
literature:
remarks:
Official homepage: http://www.jarheadmovie.com/welcometothesuck.html

http://www.ray-magazin.at/1205/sam.htm

Was filmed in California and Mexico. In californian Imperial Valley the conditions were very similar to Iraq.
availability:
DVD