Redford and Cruise present military film

Robert Redford hopes his new film about US military action in Afghanistan will encourage American youth to “take command of their voice”.

“Are they going to become politically active or are they going to move away from it because they are disgusted, they are disillusioned and they don’t respect it because there is no morality in leadership so therefore they just move away to other things,” Redford asked reporters in Rome, where the film Lions for Lambs is being shown at the city’s film festival.