TY - VIDEO ID - 138848935 TI - Beasts of no nation AU - Iweala, Uzodinma. AU - Kaufman, Amy AU - Lundberg, Daniela Taplin AU - Marker, Riva AU - Crown, Daniel AU - Elba, Idris AU - Fukunaga, Cary Joji AU - Romer, Dan AU - Nielsen, Mikkel E. G. AU - Beaudreau, Pete AU - Egyiawan, Kurt AU - Akuwudike, Jude AU - Quaye, Emmanuel Nii Adom AU - Attah, Abraham AU - Netflix (Firm) AU - Red Crown Productions (Firm) AU - Participant Media AU - Levantine Films AU - New Balloon (Firm) AU - Mutressa Movies, LLC AU - Primary Productions (Firm) AU - Parliament of Owls (Firm) AU - Criterion Collection (Firm) PY - 2021 SN - 9781681438719 1681438712 PB - [New York, N.Y.] The Criterion Collection DB - UniCat KW - Child soldiers KW - Children and war KW - Children and violence KW - Civil war UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:138848935 AB - "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, in a haunting debut performance) witnesses carnage in his village before falling captive to a band of rebel soldiers led by a ruthless commander (an explosive 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"-- ER -