PBS Premiere: August 30, 2011
Synopsis
In 2009, Janus Metz and cameraman Lars Skree accompanied a platoon of Danish soldiers to Armadillo, a combat operations base in southern Afghanistan. For six months, often while under fire, they captured the lives of the young soldiers fighting the Taliban in a hostile and confusing environment, where official rhetoric about helping civilians too often met the unforgiving reality of being a foreign occupier. Winner of the Critics’ Week Grand Prix at Cannes, Armadillo is one of the most dramatic and candid accounts of combat to come out of Afghanistan. (90 minutes)
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Film Information
Armadillo (90 min.)
Premiere Date: August 30, 2011
Streaming Dates: Expired
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Filmmaker: Janus Metz Bio | Interview | Statement
Press: Press Release | Fact Sheet | Critical Acclaim | 2012 Emmy Winner Press Release
Filmmaker
The mission was to bring the war on Afghanistan back into people’s living rooms and make them engaged. There was a feeling that nobody was really caring that there was a war in Afghanistan.”
— Janus Metz, Filmmaker
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August 30, 2011
Critical Acclaim
War documentaries, like the wars they depict, often run up against the exhaustion of the American public. With Armadillo, Danish filmmaker Janus Metz puts a bracing spotlight on pumped-up army youngbloods in Afghanistan, as part of a concerted effort to combat the same indifference within his own country.”
— Nicolas Rapold,
Wall Street Journal
The notion that the Danes are in Afghanistan on a peacekeeping mission and spend their days building schools and 'giving out candy to kids' is clearly no longer tenable.”
— Geoffrey Macnab,
The Guardian UK
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