Frieder F. Wagner

Frieder F. Wagner was born 1942 in Benesow (CSSR). After the High-School he worked as camera- and director`s assistant together with Gerard Vandenberg, Jan de Bont and others. Since 1982, Frieder F. Wagner worked as director of documentary films and realized more than 50 TV-films. In January 2007 he finished with "Deadly Dust" his first Feature Documentary. The film was nominated in 2007 for the best documentary film for "CINEMA FOR PEACE" in Berlin.

The main message of my film is that the deployment of uranium munitions and uranium bombs constitutes a war crime. Because their use leaves behind toxically and radioactive devastated areas and continue to be toxic and radioactive for hundred of years afterwards. So the use of these weapons clearly contravenes the Geneve Conventions on the conduct of war. And because George W. Bush and Tony Blair gave the green light for the use of these uranium weapons, these two men should be hauled before an international war crime tribunal.

Frieder F. Wagner


Frieder F. Wagner nasceu em 1942, em Benesow (Tchequia). Após Ensino Médio, ele trabalhou como câmera e assistente de direção, juntamente com Gerard Vandenberg, Jan de Bont entre outros. Desde 1982, Wagner trabalha como diretor de documentários e realizou mais de 50 TV-metragens. Em janeiro de 2007, ele finalizou Pó Mortal, o seu primeiro documentário de longa metragem. O filme foi indicado, em 2007, como o melhor documentário pelo "CINEMA PARA A PAZ" em Berlim.

"A mensagem principal do meu filme é que a utilização de munições de urânio e bombas de urânio constitui um crime de guerra. Porque seu uso deixa para trás áreas contaminadas com elementos radioativos e tóxicos e que continuarão a ser tóxicas e radioativas por centenas de anos depois. Assim, o uso dessas armas claramente viola a Convenções de Genebra sobre a condução da guerra. E porque George W. Bush e Tony Blair deram sinal verde para o uso dessas armas de urânio, estes dois homens devem ser levados ao tribunal internacional de crimes de guerra".

Frieder F. Wagner

(Todesstaub – die verstrahlten Kinder von Basra) Germany, 2010, 29 min Documentary The German physician and scientist, Dr. Siegwart Horst Günther, was the first one to draw public attention to the terrible long-term consequences of uranium bullets and bombs after the first Gulf War in 1991.   After the Film:  Discussion & Round Table with ICBUW-Germany. Guest: Prof. Peter Horn (IAEA expert), Dr. Winfried Eisenberg (IPPNW), Prof. Manfred Mohr (ICBUW), Doug Weir (ICBUW) - Claus Biegert moderation.
Germany, 2006/2007, 93 min, German Director: Frieder F. Wagner, Email: ochowa-film@t-online.de The film accampanies Prof. Guenther, specialist for tropic diseases and epidemiologist, and his expert colleagues as they research on the effects of depleted uranium ammunition used in Iraq, Kosovo, Bosnia, although long since banned ba Hague and Geneve Conventions. The ammunition penetrates steel like a knife slices butter and then explodes into radioactive nanoparticles that disperse: Winds can carry them clear across our planet. Unnoticed by all in contact with them, they flow through bodies like water through a sponge, leaving behind a path of destruction through the cells they crossed. In their search for contaminated battle fields. Prof. Guenther and fellow scientists discover,...