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Sometimes you get too close - The Bang Bang Club
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Title: The Bang Bang Club

Release Date: 22 Apr 2011

Runtime: 1h 46m

Genre: Drama, History

Director: Film Foundry Partners

Production Companies: Film Foundry Partners

Overview: In the early to mid '90s, when the South African system of apartheid was in its death throes, four photographers - Greg Marinovich, Kevin Carter, Ken Oosterbroek and João Silva - bonded by their friendship and a sense of purpose, worked together to chronicle the violence and upheaval leading up to the 1994 election of Nelson Mandela as president. Their work is risky and dangerous, potentially fatally so, as they thrust themselves into the middle of chaotic clashes between forces backed by the government (including Inkatha Zulu warriors) and those in support of Mandela's African National Congress.

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Ratings

Average Vote: 6.6 (164 votes)

Cast

  • Robin Comley: Malin Åkerman
  • Greg Marinovich: Ryan Phillippe
  • Kevin Carter: Taylor Kitsch
  • Ken Oosterbroek: Frank Rautenbach
  • Joao Silva: Neels Van Jaarsveld
  • Ronald Graham: Russel Savadier
  • Roxy: Ashley Friedlander
  • James Nachtwey: Patrick Lyster
  • Nelson Mandela: Nelson Mandela
  • Vivian: Lika Berning
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