Heart of Fire
Feuerherz
dir. Luigi Falorni
Germany / Austria, 2008 - 92
It is 1980, the Eritrean struggle for independence. Ten-year-old Awet has the heart of a warrior. Abandoned as a baby, she grows up in the sheltered atmosphere of a Christian monastery in Asmara. But when she returns to her family, her father brings her to a military battle unit. There is nothing she can do to elude her fate as a child soldier, but she vows to oppose this ignoble war with all her strength, and to fight against the fate that menaces her.
A poignant story illustrating the absurdity of using child soldiers in any military conflict. Made in the Eritrean language Tirgrinya, the film was inspired by the novel of the same title by Senait G Mehari.
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