Standard Operating Procedure (Film)

Interviews:

  • Janis Karpinski, Brigadier General, 800th MP Brigade
  • Tim Dugan, Civilian interrogator, CACI Corps
  • Sabrina Harman, Sergeant, MP
  • Lynndie England, Private First Class, MP
  • Javal Davis, Sergeant, MP
  • Megan Ambuhl Graner, Specialist, MP
  • Jeremy Sivits, Specialist, MP
  • Brent Pack, Army Special Agent, CID
  • Ken Davis, Sergeant, MP
  • Tony Diaz, Sergeant, MP
  • Jeffrey Frost, Specialist, MP
  • Roman Krol, Specialist, Military Intelligence

Game Scenes:

  • Joshua Feinman: Robert Elliot, Sergeant, MP
  • Cyrus King: Berry Hill, MP
  • Sarah Denning: Sabrina Harman
  • Christopher Bradley: Jeffrey Frost
  • Jeff L. Green: William Catthcart, Sergeant, MP

Standard Operating Procedure ( Alternative title: Standard Procedure ). 's An American documentary film by Errol Morris in 2008, he engaged in the Abu Ghraib torture scandal and tries the history that led to the world's most published images of prisoner abuse to fathom.

Content

Standard Operating Procedure tries to find out the circumstances which led to the torture scandal at Abu Ghraib military prison and what was going on right there by means of interviews with stakeholders and trailing game scenes. Also, the film demonstrates, as from the pictures published privately managed mistreatment of prisoners to convict the perpetrators within the guards. The film's title Standard Operating Procedure to German as " standard procedure ", alludes to the normality of such incidents in the war on terror.

Background

Standard Operating Procedure started on 29 May 2008 in German cinemas and released on 15 January 2009 on DVD and Blu- ray Disc

Criticism

" By means of formal unpretentious talking head" interviews, punctuated by some staged sequences, the film makes clear that the torture estates documented not only the offenses of a few were but sanctioned as systemic " standard procedures " and were politically tolerated and is. Sheer force the material can be obtained interrogativ this formal weaknesses recede into the background. "

Awards

Standard Operating Procedure was given at the International Film Festival Berlin 2008 the Grand Jury Prize.

2008 in film Screenplay Film score Danny Elfman Robert Richardson (cinematographer) Specialist (rank) Philip Gourevitch
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