The Seventh Fire (2015)

Directed by

Jack Riccobono

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 16m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 9 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary follows a Native American gang leader and his teenage protégé on a Minnesota reservation. It shows the leader facing prison again while his protégé dreams of becoming a powerful gangster.

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What happens

The Seventh Fire is a 2015 American documentary film directed by Jack Pettibone Riccobono. The film was presented by executive producer Terrence Malick. The film follows Rob Brown, a Native American gang leader, and his 17-year old protege, Kevin Fineday Jr., on the White Earth Indian Reservation in Minnesota. When gang leader Rob Brown is sentenced to prison for a fifth time, he must confront his role in bringing violent drug culture into his beloved American Indian community in northern Minnesota. As Rob reckons with his past, his seventeen-year-old protégé, Kevin, dreams of the future: becoming the most powerful and feared Native gangster on the reservation. The title of the film refers to the Ojibwe Seven fires prophecy. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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