• PEACE BRIGADES - Unarmed Bodyguards in Mexico and Colombia

    PEACE BRIGADES - Unarmed Bodyguards in Mexico and Colombia



PEACE BRIGADES - Unarmed Bodyguards in Mexico and Colombia

by Rasmus Gerlach

PEACE BRIGADES - Unarmed Bodyguards in Mexico and Colombia

Germany | 2006 | 79:00 min

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Documentary
Synopsis
For twenty-five years peace-brigades have been active in countries, in which men and women are 'disappearing'. As unarmed bodyguards they accompany targets of political killers - sometimes around the clock.
PBI has been protecting people from the threat of death squadrons in Guatemala, Haiti, Timor, El Salvador, Indonesia, Columbia and Mexico. Now teams are also being set up in Nepal and Congo. Even in places like Mexico-City the work of the peace-brigades is still necessary – because there are still human-rights activists 'disappearing'.
Rasmus Gerlach’s new documentary follows PBI-activists not only through the Colombian jungle but also into prisons and bloody battles with the police in Bogota. A VJ-work done under dangerous circumstances...


DigiBeta | PAL | 16:9 | DVD | original Spanish version with English soundtrack available


Production:
moonlightmovies
Rasmus Gerlach
tel.: +49 (0) 172-1725044
Rasmus.Hamburg@t-online.de
Cast and Crew
  • Director Rasmus Gerlach
  • Producer Rasmus Gerlach
Original Languages

Spanish

Production Company
Kinoki GmbH
Elmenhorststrasse 2, 22767 Hamburg

Mobile: +49 172 1725044

Phone: +49 40 38615723

rasmus.hamburg@t-online.de
http://www.der-gipfel.hamburg
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