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Sober depiction of the work of the company welfare department of the Ministry of Defence, that informs surviving relatives about the death of soldiers on a mission.

Twenty-five Dutch soldiers were killed during their mission in Uruzgan. Other missions followed. It is the task of the company welfare department of the Ministry of Defence to be the first to inform relatives when their son, daughter, brother or sister has perished. After Uruzgan, the department has only expanded. Robert Oey talks to a number of staff members about the sensitive but essential task of conveying the bad news as carefully as possible. Surviving relatives explain how they experienced that decisive moment and the loss of their loved ones. Oey does not want to question the mission as such and never moralises. With due equanimity, he registers deeply personal experiences, together constituting an intimate requiem for the fallen.

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Director
Executive producer
Sound Design
Production company
Pieter van Huystee Film & TV
TV company
Human TV
Distributor NL
Cinema Delicatessen

Title: Gesneuveld
Year: 2012
Duration : 1 hour, 32 minutes
Category: Long Documentary
Edition: NFF 2012

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