BATTLE FOR HADITHA
by Nick Broomfield
synopsis
November 19th 2005, Haditha, Iraq. Iraqi insurgents bomb a convoy of US Marines, resulting in the death of their most popular officer. Enraged by this loss, his young Marine buddies carry out a brutal retaliation. Their violent house-searches lead to the massacre of 24 people, many of whom are women and children - tragic casualties of a war they cannot control. The Marines too are victims, attacked, wounded, and forced to respond in the way they have been trained. Can Marines in the line of fire be accused of murder?
international title: | Battle for Haditha |
original title: | Battle for Haditha |
country: | United Kingdom |
sales agent: | Dreamachine |
year: | 2007 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Nick Broomfield |
film run: | 93' |
release date: | ES 14/12/2007, FR 06/02/2008, UK 29/02/2008 |
screenplay: | Nick Broomfield, Anna Telford, Marc Hoeferlin |
cast: | Elliot Ruiz, Falah Abraheem Flayeh, Yasmine Hanani, Duraid A. Ghaieb, Eric Mehalacopoulos |
cinematography by: | Mark Wolf |
film editing: | Ash Jenkins, Stuart Gazzard |
art director: | David Bryan |
music: | Nick Laird-Clowes |
producer: | Nick Broomfield, Peter Dale, Charles Finch |
production: | Lafayette Film Limited, Channel 4 |