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Beasts of no nation / Netflix presents ; a Netflix original film ; a Red [Crown] production, in association with Participant Media and Levantine Films, New Balloon and Mutressa Movies ; a Primary Productions and Parliament of Owls production ; written for the screen & directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga ; produced by Amy Kaufman, Cary Joji Fukunaga ; produced by Daniela Taplin Lundberg, Riva Marker ; produced by Daniel Crown, Idris Elba.

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Format:
Video
Contributor:
Fukunaga, Cary Joji, 1977- film director, film producer, screenwriter, director of photography.
Kaufman, Amy, film producer.
Lundberg, Daniela Taplin, film producer.
Marker, Riva, 1978- film producer.
Crown, Daniel, film producer.
Elba, Idris, actor, film producer.
Romer, Dan, composer (expression).
Nielsen, Mikkel E. G., 1973- editor of moving image work.
Beaudreau, Pete, 1974- editor of moving image work.
Egyiawan, Kurt, actor.
Akuwudike, Jude, actor.
Quaye, Emmanuel Nii Adom, actor.
Attah, Abraham, 2001- actor.
Netflix (Firm), presenter.
Red Crown Productions (Firm), production company.
Participant Media, production company.
Levantine Films, production company.
New Balloon (Firm), production company.
Mutressa Movies, LLC, production company.
Primary Productions (Firm), production company.
Parliament of Owls (Firm), production company.
Criterion Collection (Firm), film distributor.
Series:
Criterion collection ; 1091.
The Criterion collection, 1091
Language:
Akan
English
Subjects (All):
Iweala, Uzodinma--Filmk adaptations.
Iweala, Uzodinma.
Child soldiers--Africa, West--Drama.
Child soldiers.
Children and war--Africa, West--Drama.
Children and war.
Children and violence--Africa, West--Drama.
Children and violence.
Civil war--Africa, West--Drama.
Civil war.
Iweala, Uzodinma--Film adaptations.
Genre:
Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
War films.
Film adaptations.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Physical Description:
2 videodiscs (136 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + insert (12 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 19 x 70 cm, folded to 12 x 19 cm)
4 3/4 in.
polychrome
color
stamping
Edition:
Director-approved two-DVD special edition.
Place of Publication:
[New York, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2021]
Language Note:
English and some Akan dialogue.
System Details:
DVD, NTSC, Region 1; widescreen (2.39:1) presentation; Dolby 5.1 surround.
digital
optical
surround
5.1 Dolby Digital
sound
NTSC
video file
DVD video
region 1
Summary:
"The nightmare of war is seen through the eyes of one of its most tragic casualties--a child soldier--in this harrowing vision of innocence lost from Cary Joji Fukunaga. Based on the acclaimed novel by Uzodinma Iweala, Beasts of No Nation unfolds in an unnamed, civil-war-torn West African country, where the young Agu (Abraham Attah) witnesses carnage in his village before falling captive to a band of rebel soldiers led by a ruthless commander (Idris Elba), who molds the boy into a hardened killer. Fukunaga's relentlessly roving camera work and stunning visuals--realism so intensely visceral it borders on the surreal--immerse the viewer in a world of unimaginable horror without ever losing sight of the powerful human story at its center"--Container.
Contents:
disc one [Feature film; trailer]
disc two. [Supplements].
Participant:
Idris Elba, Kurt Egyiawan, Jude Akuwudike, Emmanuel "King Kong" Nii Adom Quaye, Abraham Attah.
Credits:
Director of photography, Cary Joji Fukunaga ; editors, Mikkel E.G. Nielsen, Pete Beaudreau ; music, Dan Romer.
Notes:
Title and credits from screen.
Based on the novel Beasts of no nation / by Uzodinma Iweala.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 2015.
2.39:1 wide screen.
Features: 2K digital master, approved by director Cary Joji Fukunaga; New audio commentary featuring Fukunaga and first assistant director Jon Mallard; Passion project, a new documentary on the development and making of the film, featuring interviews with Fukunaga, author Uzodinma Iweala, actors Idris Elba and Abraham Attah, and producers Amy Kaufman, Daniela Taplin Lundberg, and Riva Marker; New conversation between Fukunaga and film and television producer and cultural commentator Franklin Leonard; New interview with costume designer Jenny Eagan; Trailer; An essay by film critic Robert Daniels.
Home use only.
ISBN:
9781681438726
1681438720
OCLC:
1259299377
Publisher Number:
0715515263610
715515263610
00715515263610 gtin-14
CC3290D The Criterion Collection (container)
CC3290D-1--CC3290D-2 The Criterion Collection (disc labels)

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