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Blood Diamond
An ex-mercenary turned smuggler. A Mende fisherman. Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sierra Leone, these men join for two desperate missions: recovering a rare pink diamond of immense value and rescuing the fisherman's son, conscripted as a child soldier into the brutal rebel forces ripping a swath of torture and bloodshed countrywide.
2006 · Directed by Edward Zwick · 143 min · Drama · Thriller · Action · 12 frames
Tagline
It will cost you everything.
Crew
- Screenplay: Charles Leavitt
- Cinematography: Eduardo Serra
- Edited by: Steven Rosenblum
- Music: James Newton Howard
- Production design: Dan Weil
- Produced by: Gillian Gorfil, Marshall Herskovitz, Graham King, Darrell James Roodt
Cast
- Leonardo DiCaprio as Danny Archer
- Djimon Hounsou as Solomon Vandy
- Jennifer Connelly as Maddy Bowen
- Kagiso Kuypers as Dia Vandy
- Arnold Vosloo as Colonel Coetzee
- Antony Coleman as Cordell Brown
- Benu Mabhena as Jassie Vandy
- Anointing Lukola as N'Yanda Vandy
- David Harewood as Captain Poison
- Basil Wallace as Benjamin Kapanay
Production
- Country: Germany, United States of America
- Language: Afrikaans, English
- Studios: Virtual Studios, Spring Creek Pictures, Bedford Falls Productions, Initial Entertainment Group
- Budget: $100,000,000
- Box office: $171,720,398
- Themes: bootlegger, journalist, smuggling (contraband), loss of loved one, africa, rwandan genocide, rebel, journalism, slavery, fisherman
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