Blood Diamond

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Blood Diamond is a 2006 political war thriller film set during the Sierra Leone Civil War that explores the brutal trade in conflict diamonds through the story of a smuggler and a fisherman.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf film
political war thriller film
basedOn conflict diamond trade in Africa
cinematographyBy Eduardo Serra
countryOfOrigin Germany
United Kingdom
United States
director Edward Zwick
distributedBy Warner Bros. Pictures
distributedInFormat theatrical release
editedBy Steven Rosenblum
filmingLocation Mozambique
South Africa
genre political film
thriller film
war film
hasTheme ethics of diamond trade
exploitation in war-torn regions
journalistic investigation of conflict
leadActor Djimon Hounsou
Leonardo DiCaprio
leadActress Jennifer Connelly
mainCharacter Danny Archer
Maddy Bowen
Solomon Vandy
musicBy James Newton Howard
nominatedFor Academy Award for Best Actor
Academy Award for Best Film Editing
Academy Award for Best Sound Editing
Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
originalLanguage English
portrays child soldiers
civil war atrocities
conflict diamonds trade
producer Graham King
Marshall Herskovitz
Paula Weinstein
productionCompany Bedford Falls Productions
Spring Creek Productions
Virtual Studios
releaseDate 2006-12-08
releaseYear 2006
runtimeMinutes 143
setInCountry Sierra Leone
setInPeriod Sierra Leone Civil War
starring Antony Coleman
Arnold Vosloo
Basil Wallace
Djimon Hounsou
Jennifer Connelly
Kagiso Kuypers
Leonardo DiCaprio
storyBy C. Gaby Mitchell
Charles Leavitt
title Blood Diamond
writer Charles Leavitt


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