The Shadow's Edge
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Film / 2006
Blood Diamond
Directed by
Edward Zwick
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.
The story
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.
Cast
Leonardo DiCaprioDanny Archer
Djimon HounsouSolomon Vandy
Jennifer ConnellyMaddy Bowen
Kagiso KuypersDia Vandy
Arnold VoslooColonel Coetzee
Antony ColemanCordell Brown
Benu MabhenaJassie Vandy
Anointing LukolaN'Yanda Vandy
David HarewoodCaptain Poison
Basil WallaceBenjamin Kapanay
Jimi MistryNabil
Michael SheenSimmons
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Marius WeyersVan De Kaap
Stephen CollinsAmbassador Walker
Ntare Guma Mbaho MwineM'Ed
Ato EssandohCommander Rambo
David S. LeeCockney Journalist
Percy MatsemelaCommander Zero
Klemens BeckerGerman Minister
Grant SwanbyUNCHR Official
Adetokumboh M'CormackR.U.F. Trainer
Tau MaserumuleR.U.F. Soldier
Tyrone KeoghSA Page
Mduduzi MabasoRebel 1
Nathaniel RamabulanaRebel 2
Zenzo NgqobeRebel 3
Vanessa HaywoodDiplomat's Wife (uncredited)
Jonathan PienaarSA Cameraman
Winston NtshonaOld Mende
Clare HolmanNews Reporter
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