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Dark October (2023)

Dark October poster
Directed by
Toka McBaror
Genre
drama film
Country
Nigeria
Runtime
1h 49m
Rating
1.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This film dramatizes the true story of four university students in Nigeria who were wrongfully accused of theft and killed by a mob. It shows the events leading up to their deaths and what happened afterward.

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What happens

Dark October is a 2023 Nigerian film released to Netflix on 6 February 2023. The film is centered on the lynching of four young students at University of Port Harcourt, popularly known as the Aluu Four lynching. The four were falsely accused of theft in Aluu area of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria. The film documents the events that led to their killings and the aftermath of the event. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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