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*Blood Diamond* is a 2006 drama, war, action, and adventure film directed by Edward Zwick. The screenplay was written by Charles Leavitt, with James Newton Howard composing the score. The cast includes Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Connelly, Djimon Hounsou, and Arnold Vosloo. Production was handled by Marshall Herskovitz, Graham King, and Edward Zwick, with Eduardo Serra serving as director of photography. The film was produced by Warner Bros. Entertainment, Bedford Falls Productions, and Virtual Studios, and distributed by Netflix.
Set in South Africa and Liberia, the movie was filmed in South Africa and is in the English language. It has a runtime of 143 minutes. The film received nominations for the Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor, Best Actor, Best Sound Editing, and Best Film Editing. It also received the National Board of Review: Top Ten Films award. The film's tagline is "It will cost you everything."
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7.6An 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.
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
Themes
- bootlegger
- journalist
- smuggling (contraband)
- loss of loved one
- africa
- rwandan genocide
- rebel
- journalism
- slavery
- fisherman
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Encyclopedic overview
Blood Diamond is a 2006 American war drama film directed and co-produced by Edward Zwick and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Connelly and Djimon Hounsou. The title refers to blood diamonds, which are diamonds mined in war zones and sold to finance conflicts, thereby profiting warlords and diamond companies around the world.
Set during the Sierra Leone Civil War, the film depicts a country torn apart by the struggle between government loyalists and insurgent forces. It also portrays many of the atrocities of that war, including the rebels' amputation of civilians' hands to discourage them from voting in upcoming elections. The film's ending, in which a conference is held concerning blood diamonds, refers to a historic meeting that took place in Kimberley, South Africa, in 2000. It led to development of the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme, which sought to certify the origin of rough diamonds to curb the trade in conflict diamonds; the certification scheme has been mostly abandoned as ineffective.
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