- Actors: Elizabeth 'Eliza' Maganga Nsese, Raphael Tukiko Wagara, Dimond Remtulia, Marcus Nyoni, Sergey Samarets
- Directors: Hubert Sauper
- Writers: Hubert Sauper
- Producers: Hubert Sauper, Antonin Svoboda, Barbara Albert, Edouard Mauriat, Hubert Toint
- Format: NTSC
- Release Date: April 11 2006
- Run Time: 107 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B000EHQTQI
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #19,189 in DVD (See Top 100 in DVD)
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28 of 30 people found the following review helpful:
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Information for the innocent,
By Smokey the Bear (Ottawa, Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Darwin's Nightmare (DVD)
I wondered in the 1980's how cargo jets taking fresh cut flowers from Kenya to Europe fit a business plan.Here is a thoughtful, sensitive and perceptive documentary that exposes and explains the collective inhumanity of the one to the other, or the consequences of the politics and economics of underdevelopment. The Nile Perch, an introduced voracious predator has doomed the native Cichlids of Lake Victoria to virtual extinction. However, a business opportunity has been developed. The fish ecology parallels the brutal and lethal injustices of international trade and politics. The pragmatic reality of African exploitation in the context of Eurobusiness is the subject. The stage and actors are in Africa, while the foreign countries, corporations and the elite which set the stage are dramatically absent. This will be an artful classic in political documentary, but will not likely make it to the public school curriculum.
12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
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The Genocide of a People,
By Ian Gordon Malcomson (Victoria, BC) - See all my reviews (HALL OF FAME) (TOP 10 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Darwin's Nightmare (DVD)
A French filmaker and director, Hubert Sauper, visited the Tanzanian shores of Lake Victoria in 2003 to shoot a documentary on how the European Community as systematically exploited the fish stock of one of the world's largest bodies of fresh water. What he found in his travels was a complex story that ties together three different sequences of events. One, years ago somebody introduced the Nile perch - intentionally or otherwise - into Lake Victoria. Ever since this monstrous predator fish has clean up on all other aquatic life that kept the algae in check. While this fish has tremendous commericial value as fillets on the dinner tables of European households, it such an aggressive species that it is even eating itself. European buyers and East African fish factories have set a trading cartel that has a monopoly on the catching and processing of the Nile Perch. Huge Russian transport planes land daily to pick up the catch but bring nothing in exchange except the odd shipment of guns for deployment in war zones throughout Africa. The real rub here is that the locals literally have to live off the scraps from the fish plants, and since the region is going through another a nasty drought, the main staple of rice will only be available through UN famine relief efforts. Sauper does a very capable job of capturing the absolute devastation this whole economic scheme has done to the poor Tanzanian fisherman who with his family is literally being starved to death. There is one apocalyptic scene where Sauper comes across a group of Tanzanian children boiling the plastic bags in which the fish were initially packed to collect the hallucinogenic glue for the purposes of sniffing in order to deaden their hunger. This film is a pretty graphic reminder that there is a lot that is terribly wrong and unjust about the world we live in. Many European businessmen and Russian pilots come to cash in on this trade and while they're in the region exploit not only the natural resources but also the human variety, by availing themselves of the sex trade. Watch this film if you want to gain some insight into how depraved we are as a human race when it comes to making money at other people's expense.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
No,you are NOT dreaming. The nightmare is REAL.,
By Bruce Nichols "Coffeeman" (Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Darwin's Nightmare (DVD)
If you want to understand how things work in this world, Darwin's Nightmare along with Food Inc. are required viewing. Food Inc. takes you behind the scenes of food production to show you the dirty little secrets the food corporations don't want you to see. You'll see fist hand how they cut corners to produce "cheap" food (in both senses, price & quality). On a positive note, this film will teach you how to make healthier food choices in the grocery store.
Darwin's Nightmare takes place in a fishing village overlooking Lake Victoria, the second largest lake in the world and shows you the misery unrestrained capitalism can cause as told to you directly from the struggling fishermen who scrape a living from it, low paid Ukrainian pilots who fly rickety old cargo airplanes dangerously loaded down with 55 ton loads of Nile Perch fish, women forced to serve them as prostitutes because of poverty and destitute street children who get by, by getting high and fighting over food scraps. Watching the film and seeing Tanzanian factory workers cut, freeze blast and shrink wrap thousands of fish fillets while learning that most Tanzanians can't afford to buy the fish caught in their own lake comes across as a huge injustice. A report at the time of filming indicating that there were 2 million Tanzanians starving and needing food aid from the UN World Food Program drives home the point further. Darwin's Nightmare gives us rare access to these people whose stories never seem to get told by the major media outlets. We must thank Hubert Sauper for allowing his camera to keep rolling as the people of this Tanzanian fishing village tell their stories intimately. This one's not to be missed if you want to know how the other half of the world lives.
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