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Another Day of Life
Documentary · 2018
In 1975, Ryszard Kapuściński, a veteran Polish journalist, embarked on a seemingly suicidal road trip into the heart of the Angola's civil war. There, he witnessed once again the dirty reality of war and discovered a sense of helplessness previously unknown to him. Angola changed him forever: it was a reporter who left Poland, but it was a writer who returned…
The sides of Another Day of Life
- A Polish reporter in Angola in 1975
- A road trip to the front line of a civil war
- Animation mixed with real interviews
Another Day of Life is good for you if…
- you want to see a war through the eyes of the journalist covering it.
- you like a true story told by the people who were there.
- you like animation that looks like a feverish dream of the front.
Another Day of Life is bad for you if…
- you don't watch animated films, even about real events.
- you can't stand scenes of killing at checkpoints and in the bush.
About: war · bearing witness · helplessness
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