Jung (War) in the Land of the Mujaheddin
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Cast & Crew
Alberto Vendemmiati
Gino Strada
Kate Rowlands
Ettore Mo
Mario Crispi
Fabrizio Lazzaretti
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In contemporary Afghanistan, an Italian surgeon and a war correspondent join forces to set up an emergency hospital in northern Afghanistan, a country that has had to cope with war for over twenty years. After the Russian invaders left in defeat and the country remained mired in civil war, the Taliban took over in 1996. Houses and schools have been burned down, sons killed on the battlefield and almost everybody is hungry, an Afghan woman explains from behind her chador, perforated by only a few air holes. Women may be beaten up in the street if they are seen showing any part of their legs. At the time of filming, mop-up battles are raging, tanks dominating the mountains, soldiers are trigger-happy and the landscape is strewn with mines, which have created countless innocent victims. The new hospital tries valiantly to help all of these war victims, but the number of wounded--many of them children, their limbs ripped apart by land mines as doctors despair--seems endless and resources limited.
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Winner of the National Film Board of Canada Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 2001 Vancouver International Film Festival.
Winner of the Nestor Almendros Prize at the 2001 Human Rights Watch International Film Festival.
Released in United States Fall November 23, 2001
Released in United States 1999
Released in United States 2000
Released in United States 2001
Released in United States June 2001
Shown at Venice International Film Festival (in competition) August 30 - September 9, 2000.
Shown at Vancouver International Film Festival September 27 - October 12, 2001.
Shown at Human Rights Watch International Film Festival in New York City (Walter Reade) June 15-28, 2001.
Beta SP video
Broadcast in Canada over TVOntario December 12, 2001.
Began shooting 1999.
Completed shooting 2000.
A 75 minute version of the film will be broadcast in Canada over TVOntario.
'Jung' means war in the Dari language of the Afghan people.
Released in United States Fall November 23, 2001
Released in United States 1999 ("Jung in the Land of Mujaheddin" was shot in two parts between February 1999 and May 2000. Its two episodes were broadcast respectively over Italy's RAI-3 in June 1999, and then in September 2000--subsequently both episodes were woven together to be shown as an entire documentary work.)
Released in United States 2000 (Shown at Venice International Film Festival (in competition) August 30 - September 9, 2000.)
Released in United States 2001 (Shown at Vancouver International Film Festival September 27 - October 12, 2001.)
Released in United States June 2001 (Shown at Human Rights Watch International Film Festival in New York City (Walter Reade) June 15-28, 2001.)
