Blood Diamond
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Blood Diamond (2006)

23/01/2007 (GB)
Drama, Thriller, Action
2h 23m

It will cost you everything.

Overview

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.

  • Edward ZwickDirector
  • Charles LeavittScreenplay
  • Status

    Released

  • Original Language

    English

  • Budget

    $100,000,000

  • Revenue

    $171,700,000

Keywords

  • bootlegger
  • journalist
  • smuggling (contraband)
  • loss of loved one
  • africa
  • rwandan genocide
  • rebel
  • journalism
  • slavery
  • fisherman
  • mercenary
  • diamond mine
  • sierra leone
  • special unit
  • oppression
  • macabre
  • 1990s
  • private military company
  • inspirational
  • sinister
  • set in africa

Top Billed Cast

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Djimon Hounsou

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Solomon Vandy

Jennifer Connelly

Jennifer Connelly

Maddy Bowen

Kagiso Kuypers

Kagiso Kuypers

Dia Vandy

Arnold Vosloo

Arnold Vosloo

Colonel Coetzee

Antony Coleman

Antony Coleman

Cordell Brown

Benu Mabhena

Benu Mabhena

Jassie Vandy

Anointing Lukola

Anointing Lukola

N'Yanda Vandy

David Harewood

David Harewood

Captain Poison

Basil Wallace

Basil Wallace

Benjamin Kapanay

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