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Hell and Back Again

Synopsis

When Nathan Harris joined the US Marines at the age of 18, all he wanted to do was kill people. Now 26 and on his third deployment, he is leading a group of soldiers on the Afghanistan frontline. They daily do battle with the invisible Taliban, whilst wreaking havoc with the lives of Afghan villagers. Acclaimed war photographer Danfung Dennis is embedded with the troops, using innovative camera techniques to capture the often harrowing action. After Harris is badly injured and sent home, he must play “a whole lot of wait and see” to try to overcome his injury, as well as battling a nascent addiction to painkillers. By intercutting two overlapping narratives shifting between the twin hells of Afghanistan and American suburbia, Dennis tells a mesmerising story of one man and his demons on and off the battleground. Winner of the World Cinema Jury and Cinematography Awards, Sundance Film Festival.

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Details

Year: 2011
Type of film: Features
Running time: 88 mins
Format: HDCAM 1080/23.98p
Director: Danfung Dennis
Producer: Mike Lerner, Martin Herring
Executive Producer: Gernot Schaffler, Dan Cogan, Maxyne Franklyn, Karol Martesko-Fenster
Editor: Fiona Otway
Music: J. Ralph

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Roast Beef Productions

22 Denmark Street
London
WC2H 8NG
UK
Tel: 44 (0)20 7240 2885

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Cinetic Media

555 W 25th Street
New York
NY 10001
USA
Tel: +1 212 204 7979
Fax: +1 212 204 7980

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