Songs of War
A film by
Tristan Chytroschek
“Songs of War, a documentary on the relationship between music and violence, won the arts programming award. The a&o buero filmproduktion, made in association with ZDF and ARTE Germany, tells the story through the eyes of Sesame Street composer Christopher Cerf, who learns his music has been used as a torture device in Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib.” real screen magazine
2011 – 52 min.
ZDF/ARTE/SBS/PLANETE POLAND/PRAMER/TVI/VRT/RTTV/DBS/AL JAZEERA/ODISEA/PARAVISION
Awards: International Emmy, Vivisect International Human Rights Film Festival, DOCSDF Film Festival, One World Berlin Film Festival, FIPA Biarritz, Steps, Figra Paris, Japan Prize
Supported by Film Fund Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein
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
Narrator
Matthias Haase
Commissioning Editor
Susanne Mertens (ZDF)
Distribution
Alexandra Obradovic (a&o buero)
Producers
Robert Tasso Pütz (a&o buero)
Christian Schwalbe (ZDF)
Special Thanks to
Christopher Cerf, Composer “Sesame Street”
