The Impact of Violence – Hatred – Peace

A film by Reinhild Dettmer-Finke

1993/4, 2 x 45 min., NDR, Germany/Croatia/Serbia/Bosnia

"The Impact of Violence" reports on numerous aid programs for traumatized women and children in former Yugoslavia. "War – Hatred – Peace" investigates the reasons for this atrocious war on both sides of the front. Artists and journalists opposing the war describe the mental agitation of the "media war" long before the first shot fell.

Crew

Camera: Manfred Erismann / Christian Widuch

Commissioning Editor: Werner Grave

Press comments

The documentary comes across so authentically, first and foremost, because the filmmaker doesn’t push the women to take a position. They tell us much more about their situation and how they cope with the loss of their children, family members and houses.
Badische Zeitung