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Documentary about to be released. "On Killing"

Situations in which people are actually trying to kill you and where you are actually trying to kill other people are life altering. In war these situations occur as explosive events in longer, often tedious periods at the front. A normal person has a reserve of a maximum of about 60 days of front time, after which a mental holiday is paramount.

This documentary portrays the private lives of two US Special Forces operators in Afghanistan as well as in the privacy of their homes stateside.

Filmmaker Vik Franke experienced all of this, while making "09:11 Zulu", a documentary on the Dutch and US special Forces in Afghanistan. Riding with them in the desert for two months, hunting for the Taliban, he even had to pick up a gun himself in a huge ambush. The impact of the experience on his own life and having become of the 'Fraternity Born in the Smoke of Danger & Death' was enough to look up the only guys that he could talk to about it.

Franke's experience lasted only for two months and had a significant impact on his life. Matt and Jack have been operators in the Special Operations Forces for 4 and 12 years. ON KILLING delves into the minds of these experienced warriors. Questions like 'how do you tell your sons that you kill people for a living'; 'how does your wife cope not knowing what kinds of dangerous situations their loved ones are in?'; 'how does the family react to a guy that needs a month or two to settle down'; 'do you run risk of acquiring PTSD'.

On the professional side the film shows the daily life of a Special Forces operator in enemy territory in Afghanistan. Tedious hunting and exhilirating fire fights. Franke gets honest answers to his questions: 'why wasn't I afraid?'; 'we should have been dead'.