5/13/2023 0 Comments 438 days story![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But 438 Days also relates the birth of a great friendship and, most of all, is a film about freedom of speech and the role of the independent press in reporting on the abuse of power in every corner of the world. Scripted by Peter Birro, adapted from the book of the same name written by the journalists who wrote down the details of the real events, Ganslandt’s film is the meticulous chronicle of the 438 nightmarish days for two men crushed under the mechanism of the large mining and oil interests of Western countries in Africa. When he is jokingly handed a machine gun to take a picture with the fighters, a Somali exclaims, laughing, “ Black Hawk Down!” Swedish director Jesper Ganslandt, director of 438 Days in Official Selection at the Rome Film Fest, drops us into that climate of war where the cinematic imagination mixes with a reality in which your life is worth nothing (no one would remember Vietnam without Apocalypse Now). ![]() Persson plays football with the locals, the goal delimited by two kalashnikovs. Swedish reporters Martin Schibbye and Johan Persson ( Gustaf Skarsgård, noted for the TV series Vikings, and Matias Varela, Narcos) are waiting to meet the ONLF - Ogaden National Liberation Front, a separatist rebel group fighting for the right to self-determination for the Somali people living in the Somalian region of Ethiopia. Matias Varela and Gustaf Skarsgård in 438 Days ![]()
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