The Road to Guantanamo
In The Road to Guantanamo, codirectors Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross recount the true story of four British Muslim men who go to Pakistan for a wedding and end up in Cuba as tortured prisoners of the U.S. government. This powerful docudrama masterfully combines edge-of-your-seat storytelling (the spectacular early scenes were filmed in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran) with the troubling realism of torture in a military prison. At the same time, the film avoids simple sensationalism and the demonization of individual soldiers, instead leaving Bush, Blair, and Rumsfeld holding the buck for blatantly trampling all over the Geneva Conventions and denying prisoners their most fundamental human rights. The directors never hide their political intentions, but they have responded to critics who have called the film a work of propaganda by stating that they were not making a piece of investigative journalism, but simply wanted to tell this gripping story from the point of view of those who lived through it.
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Cast & Crew
Director: Mat Whitecross, Michael Winterbottom
Producer: Andrew Eaton, Melissa Parmenter
Cinematographer: Marcel Zyskind
Awards: Berlin 2006 (Best Director)
Music: Molly Nyman, Harry Escott
Principal Cast: Farhad Harun, Arfan Usman, Rizwan Ahmed, Waqar Siddiqui, Shahid Iqbal
Filmography: 9 Songs (2004) In This World (2002)
24 Hour Party People (2002)
The Claim (2000)
Wonderland (1999)
I Want you (1998)
Welcome to Sarajevo (1997)
Jude (1996)
Butterfly’s Kiss (1995)
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