Blood Diamand - Leonardo DiCaprio 2006

624 x 352 *******

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0450259/

Leonardo DiCaprio
Djimon Hounsou
Jennifer Connelly


Verenigde Staten
Avontuur / Thriller
143 minuten

geregisseerd door Edward Zwick
met Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Connelly en Djimon Hounsou

De film speelt zich af in het Sierra Leone van 1999, als het land verwikkeld is in een gewelddadige burgeroorlog. Danny Archer is een smokkelaar die gespecialiseerd is in het verkopen van zogenaamde "bloed-diamanten", waarmee de rebellen gefinancierd werden. Zijn leven krijgt een wending wanneer hij in aanraking komt met een boer wiens zoon is gaan vechten bij de kindsoldaten van de gewapende oppositie.

Blood Diamand - Leonardo DiCaprio 2006

In 1999, in Sierra Leone, the fisherman Solomon Vandy dreams on the day that his young son Dia Vandy will become a doctor. His dreams are shattered when the rebels invade his village and kidnap him to work in the diamond mines. Solomon finds a huge pink diamond and while hiding it, the commandant of the rebels sees, but the rebels are attacked and Salomon is arrested by the government army. While in jail, the wounded commandant tell the prisoners that Salomon found the stone, and the mercenary smuggler Danny Archer from Zimbabwe releases Salomon and proposes to exchange the diamond by his missing family. Using the idealistic American journalist Maddy Bowen, Danny locates the wife and daughters of Salomon in a refugee camp, but is informed that his son has been recruited by the rebels. Salomon and Danny consolidate a partnership, with Salomon looking for and finding his son, and Danny looking for the diamond and finding redemption.