- from the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival 2003 website
"For over four years, three Colombian filmmakers turned their cameras on themselves, using personal stories to expose the tough reality in their violent, war-ravaged country. According to these filmmakers, Colombia has been functioning for many years in the gray area between legalism and lawlessness. Their portrayal does not aim to confirm the image the outside world has of Colombia as a hotbed of excessive political violence and drug traffic, but instead draws out the beauty and warmth amidst the larger turmoil within their homeland. The humor borders on surreal as the film moves between conversations in the jungle with guerrillas to elegant dinner parties with society's elite. War Takes allows the real lives of its heroes, forever changed by war, to break through the stereotypes, forcing us to rethink our own conceptions, or misconceptions, of the beliefs and values by which these Colombians live."

To read a review of this documentary, by Educational Media News Online, please click here.

Publisher/Producer: Faction Films in association with Citurna for ZDF Das Kleine Fernsehspiel
Length: 75 minutes
Original version: Spanish. English & German subtitles.

World Distribution (except Germany / France / Austria / Latin America):
Faction Films - Sylvia Stevens
sstevens@factionfilms.co.uk
OR faction@factionfilms.co.uk

Latin America
Citurna Productions
citurnas@cable.net.co

Germany / France / Austria
ZDF - Public Channel
Burkhard Althoff - Commissioning Editor
Althoff.B@zdf.de