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"Either human rights are valid for everyone or else
they're just privileges." - Dr. Gino Strada In 1999 an Italian surgeon, Dr. Gino Strada, and a war correspondent,
Ettore Mo, join forces and set up a hospital in Afghanistan, a country
that has had to cope with various wars for the last twenty years. After
the Russians, the Taliban took Afghan society firmly into their grasp.
Houses and schools have been burnt down, sons killed on the battlefield
and almost everybody is hungry, explains a veiled Afghan woman. Women are
beaten up in the street if they are wearing sandals that show part of
their legs; everyone is terrified of breaking the extremely strict rules
of the Taliban. Meanwhile, tanks have conquered the mountains, soldiers
are trigger-happy and the rugged, stunning landscape is strewn with mines,
which are stepped on every day by countless innocent victims. The new
hospital tries to help all of these war victims, though the Italian
surgeon gets discouraged at times, because he knows that every day brings
the same calamities and the situation is nowhere near ending. "This is a
brave, intelligent, tough movie that must be seen, now more than ever.
Much more than just a piece of reporting, JUNG is a very human portrait of
the people of Afghanistan, and the horror of living in a state of
never-ending war." -Martin Scorsese For more information
on this film, please visit the traveling section of our website and
our Jung press
page Distributor - Karousel Films
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