My Heart of Darkness (2010)

Original title

Mitt mörka hjärta

Directed by

Staffan Julén

Genre

documentary film

Country

Germany, Sweden

Runtime

1h 33m

Rated

15

Rating

10.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Four former soldiers from the Angolan civil war travel together up an African river. They share their experiences and struggle with posttraumatic stress disorder, translating for each other as they confront their past.

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What happens

My Heart of Darkness is a Swedish–German 2010 documentary film about four ex-soldiers from different sides of the Angolan civil war and their posttraumatic stress disorder. The film was recorded in 2007. It was first shown at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam on November 20, 2010. It premiered in Sweden on April 8 the next year. The title of the film is a reference to Joseph Conrad's novella Heart of Darkness. The film, like the novella, takes place on a boat traveling up an African river, and covers issues of tragedy and abuse. The four ex-soldiers do not all speak the same language, but translate for each other. The narrator Marius van Niekerk, who is also the film's director and lead character, speaks English, while the others speak Portuguese and Afrikaans. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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