Music elates, touches the soul, and bypasses reason. Music is magic. But precisely this magic can turn it into an insidious weapon – for music and violence go well together. „Songs of War“ explores this link between music, brutality, and war. The film shows how torturers and military strategists have turned something pure and beautiful into a terrifying psychological weapon.

AWARDS
International Emmy Award, Japan Prize

FESTIVALS
Vivisect International Human Rights Film Festival, DOCSDF Film Festival, One World Berlin Film Festival, FIPA Biarritz, Steps, Figra Paris

BROADCASTERS
ZDF/ARTE, AL JAZEERA, SBS, VRT, DBS, RTTV, PLANETE POLAND, PRAMER, TVI, ODISEA, PARAVISION

SUPPORTED BY
Film Fund Hamburg

CAMERA
Bernhard Wagner, Christian Eichenauer, Knut Sodemann, Igor Martinovic

SOUND
Max Kielhauser, Alexander Joksimovic, Ole Förster, George Parashakis

EDITING
Norik Stepanjan, Karl-Heinz Satzger

GRAPHICS
Michael Bamber

PRODUCER
Robert Tasso Pütz

DURATION
52 mins

YEAR
2011