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Darwin's Nightmare
Documentary - 2004
Darwin's Nightmare
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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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Runtime:
107 min
Release date:
1 Sep 2004
Country:
DE, AT, BE, FR
Languages:
English, Russian, Swahili
Revenue:
$2,979,841
Awards:
Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 14 wins & 4 nominations.

Top Critics Reviews

fresh:
In unflinching terms, it captures the hellish existence endured by the many so that the few may wallow in privilege.
– Ernest Hardy,
L.A. Weekly,
9 Feb 2006
fresh:
Darwin's Nightmare is an urgent, horrific, yet at times oddly blinkered vision of the crisis of modern Africa.
– Owen Gleiberman,
Entertainment Weekly,
15 Feb 2006
fresh:
The words Being poor is like being old are scrawled on the door of a shack; like this movie, it's a howl waiting to be heard.
– Moira MacDonald,
Seattle Times,
24 Feb 2006
fresh:
If Sauper is fired up by anti-globalist conviction, his instincts as an artist and as a man rule out any kind of rhetoric or cheapness.
– David Denby,
New Yorker,
28 Feb 2006
fresh:
The movie prefers to show snippets of life and let the audience make the connections. Many of these scenes prove memorable.
– John Monaghan,
Detroit Free Press,
31 Mar 2006
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