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Darwin's Nightmare documentary

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Original title: Le cauchemar de Darwin (Darwin's Nightmare)
Year: 2004
Running time: 107 min.
Country: France
Director: Hubert Sauper
Screenwriter: Hubert Sauper
Cast: Documentary
Cinematography: Hubert Sauper
Producer: Co-production France-Austria-Belgium;
Genre: Documentary | Africa. Nature. Fishing
Synopsis: Some time in the 1960's, in the heart of Africa, a new animal was introduced into Lake Victoria as a little scientific experiment. The Nile Perch, a voracious predator, extinguished almost the entire stock of the native fish species. However, the new fish multiplied so fast, that its white fillets are today exported all around the world. Huge hulking ex-Soviet cargo planes come daily to collect the latest catch in exchange for their southbound cargo… Kalashnikovs and ammunitions for the uncounted wars in the dark center of the continent. This booming multinational industry of fish and weapons has created an ungodly globalized alliance on the shores of the world’s biggest tropical lake: an army of local fishermen, World bank agents, homeless children, African ministers, EU-commissioners, Tanzanian prostitutes and Russian pilots.

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Rankings Position

#85 Best Documentaries of the 21st century
#130 Best Documentaries in the history of film

Awards: 2005: Nominated for Oscar: Best Documentary Feature

2005: César: Best debut cinematográfico

2006: Los Angeles Film Critics Association: Nominated for Best Documentary

2004: European Film Awards (EFA): Best Documentary.

2005: National Society of Film Critics (NSFC): nominated to Best Documentary.

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Critics' reviews

"For all its bleakness, Nightmare is a film that demands to be seen. In unflinching terms, it captures the hellish existence endured by the many so that the few may wallow in privilege."

Ernest Hardy: LA Weekly
"Somewhat haphazardly organized yet fascinatingly detailed and enriched by the candor and dignity of its shockingly deprived interview subjects"

David Rooney: Variety
"Sauper has produced an extraordinary work of visual journalism, a richly illustrated report on a distant catastrophe that is also one of the central stories of our time"

Dana Stevens: The New York Times
"An uncompromising portrait of how global capitalism can exploit an area's resources to the point of near annihilation."

Frank Scheck: The Hollywood Reporter
"Sauper captures a world in which life and death are treated with equal practicality - and disregard. His camera is unflinching; your gaze may not be quite so steady."

Elizabeth Weitzman: New York Daily News
"Darwin's Nightmare, tragically, is not a dream, but rather a haunting, beautifully made reality check well worth waking up to"

Jennie Punter: The Globe and Mail

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24 My Favorite Documentaries (196)
92 My Top 10 Movies from 2004 (22)

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