Die gescheiterte Mission

original title:
Die gescheiterte Mission
other titles:
Fünf Jahre nach Kriegsbeginn, Reportagen aus dem Irak und den USA
country / year of production:
Germany / 2008
original length:
45 min. , color
premiere:
16 March 2008, ARD
genre:
Documentary
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Klaus Scherer , Stefan Rocker , Jörg Armbruster , Thomas Berbner , Patrick Leclercq
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Five years after the start of the war in Iraq this documentaryexplores the situation in Iraq and the USA. Five foreign correspondents tell about their impressions. Patrick Leclercq accomoanies a group of GIs in Bagdad, Thomas Berbner tells about American soldiers returning home traumatized, Jörg Armbruster reports on the everyday life of the population of Sadr City, Stefan Rocker observes the situation in Kurdistan which ist striving for independence and Klaus Scherer documents the consequences of the war in the US election campaign.
keywords:
reporter , documentary , journalism , media
war:
Third Gulf War (2003)
literature:
Patrick Cockburn. The Occupation. War and Resistance in Iraq. London: Verso, 2007.

Sorana Scholtes. Der Krieg und die Medien. Die Berichterstattung über den Irakkrieg 2003. Saarbrücken: VDM Verl. Müller, 2007.
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