| Country |
USA |
Language |
English, Spanish, A’ingae, Secoya (English Subtitles) |
| Color/B&W |
COLOR |
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| Director |
Joe Berlinger |
Producers |
Joe Berlinger and Michael Bonfiglio |
| Lead cast |
Pablo Fajardo, Steven Donziger, Luis Yanza, Adolfo Callejas, Diego Larrea and German Yanez
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| Genre |
Documentary |
Rating |
N/A |
| Logline |
An inside look at the infamous $27 billion “Amazon Chernobyl” case, the epic story of one of the most controversial legal cases on the planet.
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| Synopsis |
Three years in the making, this cinema-verite feature from acclaimed filmmaker Joe Berlinger (Brother's Keeper, Paradise Lost, Metallica: Some Kind of Monster) is the epic story of one of
the largest and most controversial legal cases on the planet. An inside look at the infamous $27 billion "Amazon Chernobyl" case, Crude is a real-life high stakes legal drama set against a backdrop of the environmental movement, global politics, celebrity activism, human rights advocacy, the media, multinational corporate power, and rapidly-disappearing indigenous cultures. Presenting a complex situation from multiple viewpoints, the film subverts the conventions of advocacy filmmaking as it examines a complicated situation from all angles while bringing an important story of environmental peril and human suffering into focus.
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Runtime: 101 minutes
Year: 2009 |
