Wrong Elements / COMPLETED
- Director : Jonathan Littell
- Actors :
- Genre : Documentary
- Nationality : France, Germany, Belgium
- Duration : 133 min
- Year : 2017
Synopsis
Uganda, 1989. A young Acholi rebel guided by spirits, Joseph Kony, forms
a new rebel movement against the government: the LRA, The Lord’s
Resistance Army. An “army” that grew by abducting teenagers – more than
60 000 over 25 years – of which less than half came out of the bush alive.
Geofrey, Nighty and Mike, a group of friends, as well as Lapisa, were among
these youths, abducted at 12 or 13. Today, in their effort to rebuild their
lives and go back to normal, they revisit the places that marked their
stolen childhood. At the same time victims and murderers, witnesses and
perpetrators of horrific acts that they did not fully understand, they are
forever the “Wrong Elements” that society struggles to accept.
Meanwhile, in the immensity of the Central African jungle, the Ugandan
army still continues to hunt the last scattered LRA rebels. But Joseph Kony
is still out there, on the run…
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