Songs of War: Music as a Weapon Trailer

Songs of War: Music as a Weapon Trailer (2010)

"Music is a Weapon" 25 February 2010 Factual 52 mins

Music elates, touches the soul and bypasses reason. Music is magic. But precisely this magic can turn it into an insidious weapon for music and violence belong together. The brutal power of African war dances, the ferocity of Maori Hakas, the earth-shattering roar of US sound guns blasting Metallica at Taliban hideouts the principle is always the same: Aggressive sounds demoralise the enemy and whip the allies into a frenzy. In Songs of War, director Tristan Chytroschek explores the extraordinary harmony between music and violence. Sesame Street composer, Christopher Cerf, always wanted his music to be fun and entertaining. But then he learned that his songs had been used to torture prisoners in Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib. He is stunned by this abuse of his work and wants to find out how this could happen.

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Cast

Christopher Cerf

as Presenter

Thomas Keenan

as Human Rights Project, Bard College, New York

Chris Arendt

as Former Guard, Guantanamo Bay

Herb Friedman

as Psychological Operations Expert, US Army

Mike Ritz

as Former Interrogator, US Army

Nathalie Gosselin

as Music Psychologist, Université de Montréal

Moazzam Begg

as Former Detainee, Guantanamo Bay And Bagram

Morag Josephine Grant

as Musicologist, University Of Göttingen

Mike Luce

as Drowning Pool

C.J. Pierce

as Drowning Pool

Vahan Simidian II

as CEO, HPV Technologies

Crew

Ole Förster

Ole Förster Sound Engineer

Susanne Mertens

Susanne Mertens Commissioning Editor

George Parashakis

George Parashakis Sound Engineer

Knut Sodemann

Knut Sodemann Camera Operator

Max Kielhauser

Max Kielhauser Sound Engineer

Christian Eichenauer

Christian Eichenauer Camera Operator

Igor Martinović

Igor Martinović Camera Operator

Bernhard Wagner

Bernhard Wagner Camera Operator

International Releases Dates

Germany 25 February 2010

Production Companies

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