Retour
Catherine Tellier
1999 - 29 min - Betacam SP - Couleur - France
December 1995, Monrovia, Liberia. A child alone in the street, among the ruins of a town which has been pillaged and abandoned after six years of war. He is 11 years old and calls himself "Hitler the killer" : "it's my war name, the name I was given in the bush, but my real name is Abraham", he says.
At the time, the country was emerging from a civil war which had recruted some 60,000 children like Abraham, street urchins, orphans or children who had been separated from their families through the war.
After several years of combat, Abraham-Hitler, surrendred his arms to the ECOMOG, the West-African interposition forces.
March 1999, three years after the end of the war, what has become of Abraham ? He never went to school, he prefered going to try his luck in the Ivory Coast. But will running away give him back the future that the war has stolen from him ?
Author-Director : Catherine Tellier
Delegate Producer : Periscoop productions
Broadcasting Co-producer : ARTE/SFB (Berlin)
Broadcasting Co-producer : Bayerischer Rundfunk