CRAZY
a film by Heddy Honigmann

"A homemovie about our boys in war"

director : Heddy Honigmann
script : Heddy Honigmann with Esther Gould
camera : Gregor Meerman
sound : Piotr van Dijk & Rik Meier
editing : Mario Steenbergen
production company : Pieter van Huystee Film & TV
format : 35 mm
duration : 97 min.

Winner IDFA Public Award
Fear, love, impotence and death
CRAZY is a film about the reminiscences of several Dutch UN soldiers about various battlefields were they served; memories that are inextricably bound up with one special song that brought solace far from home. Starting with the very first UN mission to Korea (1950), the film takes us on a journey to the Lebanon, Cambodia, Rwanda and former-Yugoslavia - to end up with the Fall of Srebrenica in 1995. Using home videos and photos, moving and also gruesome archive footage, the soldiers tell their moving stories about responsibility, consternation, fear, love, total impotence and death.
CRAZY is a very personal journey through the world of Dutch UN veterans through music.

The comforting power of the love song
Music and war have always been closely linked. Music is a course of comfort, a way to live through a very stressful and threatening period; a situation in which young men and women are confronted with unknown feelings of fear and homesickness. In former times, heartthrobs and well-known bands were sent to battlefields to comfort the soldiers there with music. Now that is less common and Walkmen have taken the place of illuminated stages I the jungle, desert or in the mountains.
Hardly anything can equal the comforting power of a love song in such situations.
That power is one of the subjects of Crazy.

The Dutch "Vietnam veterans"
Crazy is also about a country, our flat country, where affluence and happiness reign, but where many soldiers live who have brought back their experiences of distant wars they cannot easily forget: Holland too has its "Vietnam veterans".
World War Two ended in 1945, but peace did not return. Crazy is also a film about the scars left in Holland by fifty years of war.

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