Redacted (2007)

Directed by

Brian De Palma

Genre

drama film, war film, found footage film

Country

United States, Canada

Runtime

1h 30m

Rated

R

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 185 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The film dramatizes a real war crime committed by U.S. soldiers in Iraq. It follows the events leading up to the rape and murder of an Iraqi family.

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What happens

Redacted is a 2007 American war film written and directed by Brian De Palma. It is a dramatization, based on real events the 2006 Mahmudiyah killings in Mahmoudiyah, Iraq, when U.S. Army soldiers raped Abeer Qassim Hamza al-Janabi, an Iraqi girl, and murdered her along with her family. This film, which is a companion piece to an earlier film by De Palma, Casualties of War (1989), was shot in Jordan. Redacted premiered at the 2007 Venice Film Festival, where it earned a Silver Lion Best Director award. It was also shown at the Toronto International Film Festival, the New York Film Festival and the Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema. The film opened in Spain, and in fifteen theaters in limited release in the United States on November 16, 2007. The film received mixed reactions from critics and a poor financial response in its limited U.S. release. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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