Kongoveteranerna (2014)

Genre : Documentary, War, History, Documentary, War, History

Runtime : 58M

Director : Marika Griehsel

Synopsis

Over 6,000 men served and 19 fell in the Congo Battalion (1960-64), Sweden's most dramatic and contentious UN operation. Many of the participants have borne the experience as a lifelong, well-hidden trauma. A visit to the Congo after fifty years causes some of them to finally open up and tell the things that they haven't even been able to say to their closest family.

Actors

Marika Griehsel
Marika Griehsel
Narrator (voice)

Crews

Marika Griehsel
Marika Griehsel
Director
Marika Griehsel
Marika Griehsel
Writer
Mats Karlén
Mats Karlén
Director of Photography
Mikael Hedlund
Mikael Hedlund
Director of Photography
Simon Stanford
Simon Stanford
Director of Photography
Mikael Hedlund
Mikael Hedlund
Editor

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