Kommando 1944 (2018)
July 1944, An Asian American soldier Corporal Soo is thrown into a Nazi work camp on a farm in Germany as his family back home in America are forced into an American Japanese concentration camp in Manzanar California. The allied soldiers think Soo is a Japanese soldier and segregate him. Soo must fight to let go of the past in order to be set free.
- Date of release
- 2018-10-20
- TMDB
- 5.0 / 10 (1)
- Runtime
- 16m
- Director
- Derek Quick
Casting
- Jeff Seid — Lancaster
- Aramis Merlin — Jager
- Savira Windyani — Kiyo Soo
- Daniel Joo — Soo
- Bejo Dohmen — Kaiser
- Derek Quick — Corporal Gibson
- Benjamin Schnau — Lehmann
- Evan James Henderson — Klein
- Louie Chapman — Calhoun
- Mike Bingaman — Sergeant Knox
- Brett Ian Edwards — Hull
- Vincson Green — Jones
Interesting facts
- Filmed in: California
Kommando 1944 is a short film directed and written by Derek Quick depicting the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. The film has won over 100 awards within its first month on the festival circuit around the world and is currently competing to break the Guinness World Records for short film wins.
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