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Nina Berman’s book, Purple Hearts
Information
Clearing House – Purple Hearts. A Documentary by Roel van
Broekhoven
A photo series that the New York-based Nina Berman made
of wounded Iraq veterans led to the making of this
documentary. She also wrote the book ‘Purple Hearts, Back
from Iraq’, in which soldiers tell their stories.
Documentary filmmaker Roel van Broekhoven crossed the
United States to visit the people portrayed in Berman’s
photos.
In detail, they recount what happened on the day they got
injured; how they arrived back home, blind or legless;
how they have to try to forget the war now, in small
towns around Alabama and Pittsburgh, or in Washington and
L.A. Officially recognised as “heroes,” a Purple Heart on
the uniform in the closet, most of these soldiers long to
go back to an army that has no use for them anymore. A
story that President Bush would probably prefer not to
see propagated.
Operation Truth – U.S. Soldiers against the war
In Germany alone, the Exhibition “Purple Hearts – My Heart Is Burning” has already been shown in Heidelberg, Freiburg, Tübingen, Aachen, Saarbruecken, Herford, Hannover, Duesseldorf.
CONTACT
For more information about the exhibition and renting it, contact Annette Schiffmann – anna.schiff@t-online.de
© TFF and the author 2005
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