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Kokkinos kosmos (Red World)
Film
Title of the film
Original title:
Kokkinos kosmos
English title:
Red World
Hungarian title:
Vörös világ
Production and shooting info
Country of the production:
Greece - gr
Year of production:
2007
Year of shooting:
2007
Length of the film:
72 min
Colouring:
colour
Standard format:
Beta SP
Original language:
swahili
English
French
lingala
Language of subtitle:
English
Description of the content
Four million people have lost their lives in the Democratic Republic of Congo during humanity’s deadliest war since WWII. The documentary goes after the causes behind the civil war, at the depths of the Red World. The documentary’s producers travel to the region of Ituri and follow two children into an old Belgian goldmine. They walk more than two kilometres through dark corridors in order to arrive to the “Red World”, a tunnel of argil that has collapsed many times in the past. Over there, more than 2,000 people, juveniles and adults, are digging in the mud on a daily basis for some nuggets of gold. Hidden in the bowels of Congo’s land, this precious metal has financed the civil war and the two warring parties, the Hema and Lendu tribes. WarZone follows the course of gold from the mines of Mongualou to the local markets, before it illegally crosses the border with neighbouring Uganda and from there to the treasuries of foreign banks and the bazaars of the East.
Credits
Director:
Dimitris Gerardis
Producer:
Litsa Deli
Cinematographer:
Sotiris Danezis
Editor:
Kostas Christakopoulos
Pavlos Kontogiorgis
Sound:
Dimosthenis Ioannou
Company / Institution
Production:
Mega Channel Teletypos S.A
Ethnicity and locality
Etnic group:
Hema
Lendu
Continent:
Central Africa
Country:
Congo - cg
Tipology
Type:
non-fiction film
Form:
documentary film
Related sciences
Social science:
history
cultural anthropology
Keyword:
young people
war
disadvantage
Documents
dialoglist
Photos
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