The Bang Bang Club (2010)

Directed by

Steven Silver

Genre

drama film, biographical film

Country

South Africa, Germany, Canada

Runtime

1h 46m

Rated

R

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 181 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Four photojournalists document the violence in South Africa's townships during the final years of apartheid. The film follows their dangerous work and personal struggles as they capture images of a country in turmoil.

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What happens

The Bang Bang Club is a 2010 Canadian-South African biographical drama film written and directed by Steven Silver and stars Ryan Phillippe as Greg Marinovich, Malin Åkerman as Robin Comley, Taylor Kitsch as Kevin Carter, Frank Rautenbach as Ken Oosterbroek and Neels Van Jaarsveld as João Silva. They portray the lives of four photojournalists active within the townships of South Africa during the apartheid period, particularly between 1990 and 1994, from when Nelson Mandela was released from prison to the 1994 elections. It is a film adaptation of the book The Bang-Bang Club: Snapshots from a Hidden War co-written by Greg Marinovich and João Silva who were part of the group of four photographers known as the Bang-Bang Club, the other two members being Kevin Carter and Ken Oosterbroek. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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