Director: Coco Schrijber
Script: Coco Schrijber, Sander Snoep
Photography: Sander Snoep
Editor: Boris Gerrets, SAnder Snoep
Sound: Rik Meier
Producer: Wessel van der Hammen, Leontine Petit, Joost de Vries
Production: Lemming Film in coproduction with IKON
Distribution: d.net.sales
Selected Filmography Coco Schrijber: Leven van Steen, 1992; Ik, mik Moreland, 1994; In Motion, 1994; een doodgewoon Gezin, 1996; Lunch in Budapest, 1996; Groot, niet klein, 1997.
Coco Schrijber deals with the other side of heroism and trench romance – the fascination of killing in war, the pleasure of legitimate destruction. In interviews with veterans and war reporters (incl. Michael Herr, co-author of “Full Metal Jacket” and “Apocalypse Now”), she pursues the question of how the power to decide over life or death can become a habit, even an addiction. Sometimes working closely with the statements of those interviewed, at other times reversing this method, the film works with alienating effects and aestheticized landscape tableaus, in which the discrepancy between civilized sublimation and primal drive become tangible.