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Cast
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George Bush | ... |
Self (archiveFootage)
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George W. Bush | ... |
Self (archiveFootage)
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Joanne Herring | ... |
Self (archiveFootage)
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Hamid Karzai | ... |
Self (archiveFootage)
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Mike Martin | ... |
Self - Captain - British Army, Helmand 2008-2009
(as Dr. Mike Martin)
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Ronald Reagan | ... |
Self (archiveFootage)
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Directed by
Adam Curtis |
Written by
Adam Curtis | ... | () |
Produced by
Chris Granlund | ... | executive producer |
Victoria Jaye | ... | executive producer |
Lucy Kelsall | ... | producer |
Monica Whitlock | ... | consulting producer |
Editing by
Adam Curtis |
Editorial Department
Tamer Osman | ... | on-line editor |
Colin Peters | ... | colourist |
Production Management
Alison Mills | ... | production manager |
Sound Department
Nick Fry | ... | dubbing mixer |
Additional Crew
Stuart Robertson | ... | archive consultant |
Kumail Tayyebkhan | ... | technical consultant |
Thanks
Phil Goodwin | ... | thanks: shot much of the footage and collected a lot of the rest |
Tessa Hunkin | ... | thanks |
Production Companies
Distributors
- British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) (2015) (United Kingdom) (VOD)
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Storyline
Plot Summary |
Politicians used to have the confidence to tell us stories that made sense of the chaos of world events. But now there are no big stories and politicians react randomly to every new crisis - leaving us bewildered and disorientated. Bitter Lake is a new, adventurous and epic film by Adam Curtis that explains why the big stories that politicians tell us have become so simplified that we can't really see the world any longer. The narrative goes all over the world, America, Britain, Russia and Saudi Arabia - but the country at the heart of it is Afghanistan. Because Afghanistan is the place that has confronted our politicians with the terrible truth - that they cannot understand what is going on any longer. The film reveals the forces that over the past thirty years rose up and undermined the confidence of politics to understand the world. And it shows the strange, dark role that Saudi Arabia has played in this. But Bitter Lake is also experimental. Curtis has taken the unedited rushes of everything that the BBC has ever shot in Afghanistan - and used them in new and radical ways. He has tried to build a different and more emotional way of depicting what really happened in Afghanistan. A counterpoint to the thin, narrow and increasingly destructive stories told by those in power today. |
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