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Johnny Mad Dog
- Director: Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire
- Writer: Emmanuel Dongala; Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire
- Producer: Benoît Jaubert; Mathieu Kassovitz
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It is NOT Blood Diamond.
Boy soldiers playing grown-up games - it is utterly horrifying.
Even their sexualities are in question - simply because they have none - too young, too brainwashed?!?
Some dress in women's clothing - their statement being...?
A work of exceptional exploitative intelligence - some of the actors were boy soldiers.
However it is seen - it will remain one of the most powerful portrayals of a fucked-up state in fucked-up Africa - the West should hang its head...
Necessary viewing.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
Johnny Mad Dog, maybe 15, leads a band of boy soldiers in a civil war in an unnamed African country. "Don't want to die? Don't be born" is one of their shouted mottoes. We follow Mad Dog and his crew - No Good Advice, Butterfly, Chicken Hair, and others - as they kill, pillage rape, interrogate, and terrorize on their march to the capital. They take a TV station and lead an assault on the President's residence. We also follow Laokole, about Johnny age, as she tries to hold together her family of brother and disabled father. Is there more than chaos and inhumanity here? At war since age 10, has Johnny anything inside?
Cast & Characters
Carlos Badawi as Casque bleu;
Teddy Boy as Gamin aux oranges;
Maxwell Carter as Monsieur Kamara;
Amil Cash as Rebelle;
Galaxy Chea as Rebelle;
Jerry B. Chea as Rebelle;
Barry Chernoh as Small Devil;
Eric Cole as Jugle Rocket;
Augustin David as Rebelle;
Robert Davies as Fuck Dogo;
Prince Doblah as Cpt Dust to Dust;
Emmanuel Dunbar as Rebelle;
Joseph Duo as Never Die;
Miata Fahnbulleh as Madame Kamara;
Gromah Flomo as Fille Pickup