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It will cost you everything. - Blood Diamond
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Title: Blood Diamond

Release Date: 8 Dec 2006

Runtime: 2h 23m

Genre: Drama, Thriller, Action

Director: Virtual Studios, Spring Creek Pictures, Bedford Falls Productions, Initial Entertainment Group, Lonely Film Productions GmbH & Co. KG., Warner Bros. Pictures, Liberty Pictures

Production Companies: Virtual Studios, Spring Creek Pictures, Bedford Falls Productions, Initial Entertainment Group, Lonely Film Productions GmbH & Co. KG., Warner Bros. Pictures, Liberty Pictures

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.

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Ratings

Average Vote: 7.5 (7653 votes)

Cast

  • Danny Archer: Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Solomon Vandy: Djimon Hounsou
  • Maddy Bowen: Jennifer Connelly
  • Dia Vandy: Kagiso Kuypers
  • Colonel Coetzee: Arnold Vosloo
  • Cordell Brown: Antony Coleman
  • Jassie Vandy: Benu Mabhena
  • N'Yanda Vandy: Anointing Lukola
  • Captain Poison: David Harewood
  • Benjamin Kapanay: Basil Wallace
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