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Tanja – Up in Arms

by Marcel Mettelsiefen

Tanja – Up in Arms

2023 | 85:00 min

Original Title:
TANJA – TAGEBUCH EINER GUERILLERA

Formal Categories

Biography / Portrait Human Interest War / Peace Human Rights Politics

Content Categories

Documentary
85 or 52min original Dutch, Spanish, English version with English subtitles available
Synopsis
In the early 2000s, 19-year-old Tanja from the Netherlands decides to go to Colombia as an au pair and is immediately confronted with the country's political turmoil. Horrified by the injustice she observes, she joins the largest guerrilla army in the world, FARC, and takes up arms to fight. After years in the dangerous jungle, Tanja becomes a key member of the organization and is eventually assigned as part of the FARC delegation to peace negotiations that lead to the end of the longest civil war in Latin America's history. But now her reunion with her family is held up by an Interpol arrest warrant.
Festivals/Awards
2023
38 DOK.fest Munich
2024
21 Millenium Docs Against Gravity
Cast and Crew
  • Director Marcel Mettelsiefen
  • Producer Oliver Stoltz
  • Editor Stephen Ellis
  • Score Johannes Repka
Original Languages

Dutch

English

Spanish

World Sales Company
MAGNETFILM GmbH
Torstraße 154, 10115 Berlin

Phone: +49 30 24628156

georg.gruber@magnetfilm.de
http://www.magnetfilm.de
Production Company
DREAMER JOINT VENTURE Filmprod. GmbH
Regensburger Str. 25, 10777 Berlin

Phone: +49 30 30024440

Fax: +49 30 300244418

info@dreamerjointventure.de
http://www.dreamerjointventure.de
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