Wrong Elements

director: Jonathan Littell

original title: Wrong Elements

year: 2015

running time: 133 min.

synopsis

Joseph Kony, the self-appointed leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army, abducted tens of thousands of children in northern Uganda over the course of twenty-five years and trained them to kill. In the interview led by the film’s director, the trio of narrators return to the site of their captivity and, with a touch of bizarre humor, replay the merciless daily routine of their stolen childhood in the bush.

biography

Jonathan Littell (1967), who is also the author of The Kindly Ones (2006), a novel about the horrors of WWII, artistically and from various positions gives a shape to the topic of conflict and war. His film debut was at the Cannes Film Festival.

more about film

director:	Jonathan Littell
producer:	Jean-Marc Giri
photography:	Joachim Philippe
sound:	Yolande Decarsin

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