Fünf Jahre Leben
Five Years of Life
Directed by
2013
The German Turk Murat Kurnaz (Sascha Alexander Gersak) earns his living in a Turkish disco. When is friend Oktay dies in a knife fight, he decides to change his life. He begins to learn about the Islamic faith and wants to attend a madrassa in Pakistan. There he is arrested at a security check and forwarded to the US armed forces in Afghanistan who, in the end, take him to the Guantanamo prison camp. He shall confess that he planned to join the Taliban in Afghanistan (...) (Festival information)
This is the story of a man who was a prisoner in Guantanamo for five years. The film shows a particular section of this time. Acted convincingly and shown from a nightmarishly real perspective the film provokes questions about humanity and dignity. It sets its own testimony against an enforced confession – a plea for the power of will and against oblivion.