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 Peyman Rafii,
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The narrator summarizes it right at the start : "Watch these pictures very attentively". An Iranian army truck is ambushed by members of the Kurdish resistance in the middle of Iranian Kurdistan. The operation takes barely 5 minutes, and the result is : 17 dead on the enemy side and a pile of weapons captured. The pictures in this perfectly ordinary, actually banal documentary do indeed deserve to be watched attentively, even if it is only because we seldom get to see them. Ordinary pictures of the ordinary activities of farmers, doctors, nurses, village dignitaries, housewives, but all during a period of regular bombardment and an economic boycott of the Khomeini regime. This is front-line film-making : the viewer is not only witness to the incident already mentioned, but also to a strategically executed attack on an army camp. More real than real (despite the bombastic use of a dramatic soundtrack), particularly because along the way these pictures make us aware of the facts : this war is being fought with Kalashnikovs, stencilled pamphlets, amateur radio links and field telephones, in short : with old media. Perhaps that is why it is not given any space in the actual media. |
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 Bambule |
 Heintje |
 November Days |
 Berlin |
 Arbeiter verlassen die Fabrik |
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 Deutschland Trilogy |
 Der Reise |
 Deutschland Privat |
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