DIRTY WAR In the film genre exists an unwritten rule: there is nothing that advocates a humanitarian cause with more strength and desperation than a seizure carried out in the name of a civil battle. [read more]

In his new film Dirty War , the director Claudio Fragasso, recalls all that cinema action focusing on State forces who rebel against the injustices and silence of the State. Retracing the path traced not only by the Italian detective films of the seventies but also very contemporary American movies like The Negotiator, John Q and Inside Man, the film makes use of ideas, rhythm, visual style and narrative suggestions Five years after the military intervention in the land-mine clearance in the areas of the Balkans, Kosovo and Afghanistan , many members of the Italian Army fall ill with leukaemia having come into contact, without knowing, with particles of depleted uranium present in weapons Dr .Ferri, facing the agony of her husband, a paratrooper who fell ill during the last mission in Kosovo, makes another veteran, Colonel Moresco, promise to do all he can to prove the connections between depleted uranium weapons of war and the proliferation of cancer among Army personnel. Deputy Commissioner Manfredi, a skilled negotiator disinclined to the protocols of the police, must manage a teenage daughter and a marital crisis with a wife he still loves. The destinies of the two men will encounter, inside a hospital. Colonel Moresco organizes in fact a commando for his last mission: He holds patients and hospital staff as hostages, threatening their lives, requesting the deadly substance to be abolished. The wife of Deputy Commissioner Manfredi is hospitalized for urgent treatment that could save her life, with their daughter Valentina. Manfredi, not without difficulty, managing somehow to handle the case tries to negotiate. But the Colonel's plans are different .... He and his men, in fact, already sentenced to death for having contracted the disease, will allow the special squad intervened to free the hostages, to slaughter them.Theirs is a real sacrifice in the name of a righteous cause, with the only purpose of drawing the media's attention to the case and to put an end to what now for them is only a dirty war ...

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