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Cinema Release of "The Most Secret Place on Earth"
We are delighted to announce that Marc Eberle’s film The Most Secret Place on Earth - The CIA's Covert War in Laos, developed at the Discovery Campus Masterschool 2003, opens in German theatres end of April 2009. The film was produced by Gebrueder Beetz Filmproduktion, NDR / ARTE / WDR, with the support of film fund Hamburg, NRW and MEDIA NEW TALENTS.
The Vietnam War was the most intensely televised war ever. However, next door in neighboring Laos the longest and largest air war in human history was underway and made Laos the most bombed country on the planet without notice of the outside world. It was the largest operation ever conducted by the CIA, yet to this day it remains utterly obscure. Critics call it the biggest war crime of the Vietnam War era and point to striking similarities of the present conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan that were tested and set in motion back in Laos in the 1960s. In The most secret place on earth key players of the secret war – former CIA agents, US pilots, Laotian fighters and war reporters – take us on a journey into the physical heart of the conflict: Top secret Long Cheng, where the CIA built their headquarters in 1962. From here the secret war was largely planned and executed. As the war dragged on, Long Cheng became the busiest airbase in the world and a major center for the global opium and heroin trade.
Screening dates:
Cologne: 26 April 2009 at 11.30 AM
Location: Filmforum NRW, Museum Ludwig
Bischofsgartenstr. 1, 50667 Cologne
www.filmforumnrw.de
Hamburg: 4 May 2009 at 8.00 PM
Location: Kino Abaton, Allendeplatz 3
Ecke Grindelhof, 20146 Hamburg
www.abaton.de
Frankfurt/Main: 5 May 2009 at 8.00 PM
Location: Kino Naxos, Theater Willy Praml
Naxoshalle, Wittelsbacher Allee 29, 60316 Frankfurt
www.naxos-kino.org
Berlin: 7 May 2009 at 9.15 PM
Location: Kino Babylon:Mitte
Rosa-Luxemburg-Straße 30, 10178 Berlin
www.babylonberlin.de
The director, Marc Eberle, will be at all screenings answering questions after the film.
