Riverboom

Riverboom

8.4IMDb Score
Released:2024-09-25
Duration:99 min
Country:Switzerland
Director:Claude Baechtold
Actors:Claude Baechtold, Paolo Woods, Serge Michel
Production:Intermezzo Films, RTS

Overview:

In the year following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, young journalist Claude Baechtold finds himself in the war zone of Afghanistan. Not entirely voluntarily, the avowed anti-militarist is dragged by two fearless reporters on a round trip through the entire country.

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