Unicef ambassador Taubman with new video about children at war
Published: Monday, Apr 15th 2024, 10:10
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Children at war is the subject of a new video by British-Swiss actor Anatole Taubman. It only lasts thirty seconds. But it triggers a dramatic movie in the viewer's head.
Sirens, falling bombs, shattering glass, helicopter gunships, panicked breathing and the cry of "No" - these are the sounds. The actor Anatole Taubman can be seen in close-up: the fear, the panic is written all over his face. It is dark. "He's not playing a role here, he's playing himself," writes the United Nations Children's Fund, Unicef, in a statement on Monday.
"Life is not a game" is the title of the video. Children do not appear in it. And yet the viewer is drawn into the horror that children in particular experience in war. The video and Taubman's performance conjure up images in the minds of everyone who sees it. The culmination is the emptiness in which all hope dies.
Anatole Taubman has made a name for himself with roles in "The Black Spider" (2022), "Wanda, My Miracle" (2020), "Zwingli" (2018) and the Bond film "Quantum of Solace" (2008). He has been an ambassador for Unicef Switzerland and Liechtenstein since 2018.
In this role, he is now using the video to support the children's charity's fundraising campaign, which was launched on Monday. Because: "In all wars, it is children who suffer the most," says Unicef. Over the next two weeks, Unicef will be showing the video on Swiss radio and television SRF, in cinema advertising and on social media.
The video was an in-house production, Jürg Keim, Head of the Media Office at Unicef Switzerland Liechtenstein, told the Keystone-SDA news agency. Taubman performs on stage at the Volkshaus Zurich. "With this comparatively inexpensive production, we want to distribute as much of the money raised as possible to those countries where war is raging," says Keim.
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