Midt inde i Somalias hovedstad Mogadishu, en by med to millioner indbyggere, ligger styrker fra den Afrikanske Union i brutal krig med de radikale islamister i Al-Shabaab. 'Mogadishu Soldier' er resultatet af de over 500 bånd, som to af soldaterne selv har filmet midt i den kaotiske krigszone, og giver et uset og nært billede af hvad krig (også) er, set indefra i en ekstremt farlig by, som næsten ingen medier rapporterer fra. Både når de er i kamp, når de forsøger at hjælpe de civilie i skudlinien, og når de bare keder sig og intet sker - hvilket er de øjeblikke, der oftest siger mest om krigens natur.
Since 2006, the radical Islamists of Al-Shabaab have been fighting to overthrow the Somali government. Under the UN flag, the African Union is now engaged in a peacekeeping mission (AMISOM), with soldiers from Burundi and Uganda. These troops are fighting Al-Shabaab in the center of Mogadishu, Somalia's capital city, with a population of two million. Documentary filmmaker Torstein Grude gave two African Union soldiers a camera with instructions to film whatever they felt was important. For an entire year, they documented diverse aspects of warfare, from firefights in trenches and life on the base to the dead and wounded lying in the streets. They also filmed conversations with local people hoping for food and water, soldiers fantasizing about women, and the arrival of an embedded journalist. War is shown to be banal and chaotic, with periods of boredom and instances of both compassion and gross inhumanity
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