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Congo is a 1995 American science fiction action-adventure film based on the 1980 novel by Michael Crichton. It was directed by Frank Marshall and stars Laura Linney , Dylan Walsh , Ernie Hudson , Grant Heslov , Joe Don Baker and Tim Curry .
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 19 January 2025. Democratic Republic of the Congo Republic of the Congo The Congo River forms much of the border between these two countries. The Congo Basin comes from the river. Congo or The Congo may refer to: Congo River, in central Africa Congo Basin, the sedimentary basin of the river Democratic ...
Dignity Film Finance / Film Shed: Jamie Adams (director/screenplay); Alia Shawkat, Eiza González, Chanel Cresswell, Nick Helm, Dolly Wells, Tara Lee: A Crime on the Bayou: Shout! Studios: Nancy Buirski (director/screenplay); Gary Duncan, Richard Sobol: 23: Good on Paper: Netflix / Universal Pictures
Gospa (Croatian for "Madonna" or "Our Lady") is a 1995 religious drama starring Martin Sheen and Morgan Fairchild about pilgrimages to a small Herzegovinian village of Međugorje where six school children say the Virgin Mary appeared in 1981.
The film, which was directed by Jack Cardiff, is based on Wilbur Smith's 1965 novel, The Dark of the Sun. The story about a band of mercenaries sent on a dangerous mission during the Congo Crisis was adapted into a screenplay by Ranald MacDougall. Critics condemned the film on its original release for its graphic scenes of violence and torture. [2]
[8] Film critic Alissa Wilkinson published on The New York Times: "I can't stop thinking about the remarkable 'Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat,' a sprawling film that's a well-researched essay about the 1960 regime change in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the part the United States, particularly the C.I.A., played."
The film was mostly filmed in Medan (pictured 2009). The Act of Killing came to be when Oppenheimer and co-director Christine Cynn went to a Belgian-owned palm plantation nearby Medan, where the female workers were asked to spray the plant killer herbicide to their body; the film that came out of it, The Globalisation Tapes (2003), documents their worries on making a union against the system ...
Virunga is a 2014 British documentary film directed by Orlando von Einsiedel.It focuses on the conservation work of park rangers within the Congo's Virunga National Park during the rise of the violent M23 Rebellion in 2012 and investigates the activity of the British oil company Soco International within the UNESCO World Heritage Site. [1]