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Blood Diamond

Release Date:December 8, 2006

Running Time:143 min

Genres:Drama, Action, Thriller

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Cast

Leonardo DiCaprio Djimon Hounsou Jennifer Connelly Kagiso Kuypers Arnold Vosloo Antony Coleman Benu Mabhena Anointing Lukola David Harewood Basil Wallace Jimi Mistry Michael Sheen

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Synopsis

An ex-mercenary turned smuggler. A Mende fisherman. Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sierra Leone, these men join for two desperate missions: recovering a rare pink diamond of immense value and rescuing the fisherman's son, conscripted as a child soldier into the brutal rebel forces ripping a swath of torture and bloodshed countrywide.

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