Child. Captive. Killer.
Based on the experiences of Agu, a child fighting in the civil war of a West African country. Follows Agu's journey as he's forced to join a group of soldiers. While he fears his commander and many of the men around him, his fledgling childhood has been brutally shattered by the war raging through his country, and he is at first torn between conflicting revulsion and fascination.
- Harm to children
- Graphic violence
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- CinemaSerfon TMDB · Jul 20267/10
"Agu" (Abraham Attah) is a young lad who witnesses at first hand the violence that is sweeping his rural community and with his family and village decimated by marauding bandits, he finds himself under the command of a man who is as brutal as he is shrewd (Idris Elba). He knows how to instill a culture of fear into his new recruits and he also knows how to weed out those whom he deems too weak or too squeamish from his army of newly indoctrinated children. Quite quickly, the shock that initially affected "Agu" begins to become tempered by his own inate survival instincts, and he is soon wielding a machete and a Kalashnikov like the rest of the older boys - for whom life means little and the struggle all. I think quite sensibly for Cary Joji Fukunaga, he's avoided naming the country or, indeed, the leader of this squadron - indeed the very lack of names attributed to many of the characters as we progress through this wartorn land does a lot to effectively present us with quite a dehumanised experience. These are children who ought to be in school and playing - not being taught how to strip a rifle, plant a land mine or take a sword to the head of another human being; yet "Agu" is bu
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Cast
- Abraham AttahAgu
- Idris ElbaCommandant
- Emmanuel Nii Adom QuayeStrika
- Opeyemi FagbohungbeSergeant Gaz
- Emmanuel AffadziDike
- Richard PeppleFather Friday
- Ama K. AbebreseMother
- Kobina Amissah-SamFather
- John ArthurAngry Bush Taxi Driver
- Kurt Egyiawan2nd I-C
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- Cary Joji FukunagaDirector
- Cary Joji FukunagaScreenplay
- Uzodinma IwealaNovel
- Cary Joji FukunagaDirector of Photography
- Dan RomerOriginal Music Composer
- Mikkel E.G. NielsenEditor
- Pete BeaudreauEditor
- Daniela Taplin LundbergProducer
- Riva MarkerProducer
- Idris ElbaProducer
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