Lost Children

original title:
Lost Children
country / year of production:
Germany / 2005 (x)
original length:
103 min. , color
premiere:
14 February 2005, Berlin International Film Festival
genre:
Documentary
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director:
Oliver Stoltz , Ali Samadi Ahadi
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plot synopsis:
This documentary deals with the hijacking of children in the north of Uganda. Since 20 years, children have been kidnapped by the fanatic and religious Lord's Resistance Army, that forces the children to kill their own families. In this systematical murder victims become perpetrators. The film shows four children soldiers on their way back to a normal life.
keywords:
children , youth during wartime , family on both sides of the front , order and obedience , insubordination , escape
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literature:
Michael Pittwald. Kindersoldaten, neue Kriege und Gewaltmärkte. Osnabrück: Sozio-Publ., 2004.

Rachel Brett/ Margaret MacCallin. Kinder - Die unsichtbaren Soldaten. Norderstedt: Alberts, 2001.

Dittmar Dahlmann. Kinder und Jugendliche in Krieg und Revolution. Vom Dreißigjährigen Krieg bis zu den Kindersoldaten Afrikas. Paderborn: Schöningh, 2000.
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Homepage:
http://www.lost-children.de/

Won a price at the "German Film Awards" in 2006.
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