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Overview

User Rating:
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Director:
Christian Frei
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Release Date:
2001 (USA) more
Genre:
Documentary | War more
Plot:
Documentary about war photographer James Nachtwey, considered by many the greatest war photographer ever. | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for Oscar. Another 6 wins & 3 nominations more
User Comments:
Phenomenal more (8 total)

Cast

  (Complete credited cast)
James Nachtwey ... Photographer
Christiane Amanpour ... Chief International Correspondent CNN
Hans-Hermann Klare ... Foreign Editor STERN Magazine
Christiane Breustedt ... Editor in Chief GEO SAISON Magazine
Des Wright ... Cameraman REUTERS
Denis O'Neill ... Screenwriter / Jim's Best Friend
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Additional Details

Runtime:
96 min
Country:
Switzerland
Language:
English | German
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.66 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby
Certification:
France:U | Germany:16 | Switzerland:12 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:12 (canton of Vaud) | Switzerland:16 (canton of the Grisons)
Filming Locations:
Hamburg, Germany more

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Quotes:
James Nachtwey: The most incomprehensible situation I've ever witnessed was Rwanda where we don't really know how many people died; the estimate of half a million to a million. They were killed with very primitive weapons; clubs and rocks and machetes, face to face. And I saw some massacre sites and I just do not understand how people can do that to each other. What can inspire such fear and such hatred? This is beyond my understanding really. It’s very difficult to get over that.
James Nachtwey: And I realised that many of the people I was photographing might have been the very ones who had committed the massacres that I had witnessed just a few weeks before. And it was like taking the express elevator to hell.
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Soundtrack:
Farewell Theme more

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8 out of 8 people found the following comment useful.
Phenomenal, 8 June 2004
10/10
Author: salty-17 from Washington, DC

I watched this film and was riveted throughout. The image quality is very high. Watching James Nachtwey work in silence with total dedication and focus while flames crackle in the background... this film is a masterpiece of understated intensity. Everybody has seen this photographers images - they just may not realize who the author of those images are. Watch this film to find out why one (and many other) individual takes the risks and endures the hardships to freeze-frame and expose the uglier sides of human nature.

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