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Mogadishu Soldier (2016)

Name: Mogadishu Soldier
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2017-12-24T05:19:41+01:00
Rating: 3.5

Documentary | 84 minutes

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Genre: Documentary

Duration: 84 minuten

Country: Norway / Finland / Denmark / Somalia

Directed by: Torstein Grude

IMDb score: 6,7 (40)

Releasedate: 19 November 2016

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Mogadishu Soldier plot

Since 2006, the radical Islamists of Al-Shabaab have been battling the Somali government for control of the country. Meanwhile, the African Union is carrying out a peace mission (AMISOM) under the UN flag, with soldiers from Burundi and Uganda. These soldiers are fighting Al-Shabaab in the center of Mogadishu, the Somali capital with two million inhabitants. Two soldiers from the mission were given a camera by documentary maker Torstein Grude to film what they themselves thought was important. For a year, they recorded various elements of warfare, from shooting from trenches and life in the camp to the sight of the dead and wounded in the streets.