Sinai Field Mission
Director Frederick Wiseman
Countries United States
Duration 127 min
Synopsis
The routine activities of the American assignees who work on the U.S. Sinai Field Mission, the early warning system established in 1976 to help facilitate the disengagement between Egypt and Israel after the 1973 war. The film focuses on surveillance operations and strategic passes of the Mission in all of the Egyptian and Israeli surveillance station, as well as their relationship with UN soldiers and the quotidian of the 163 American soldiers that were sent to the Sinai Desert. A military world obsessively focused on war – a fact that becomes a crying irony during the ordinary moments where nothing warlike happens.
The routine activities of the American assignees who work on the U.S. Sinai Field Mission, the early warning system established in 1976 to help facilitate the disengagement between Egypt and Israel after the 1973 war. The film focuses on surveillance operations and strategic passes of the Mission in all of the Egyptian and Israeli surveillance station, as well as their relationship with UN soldiers and the quotidian of the 163 American soldiers that were sent to the Sinai Desert. A military world obsessively focused on war – a fact that becomes a crying irony during the ordinary moments where nothing warlike happens.