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�The Messenger’ is a film about a US Army officer who has just returned home from a tour of duty in Iraq and is assigned to the Army’s Casualty Notification service. Together with a fellow officer, it is his job to bear the bad news of fallen soldiers to loved ones. Marco Werman talks with the film’s director Oren Moverman.

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