Plot
Dole Food Company wages a campaign to prevent a pair of Swedish filmmakers from showing their documentary about a lawsuit against the company.
Release Year: 2011
Rating: 7.5/10 (59 voted)
Director:
Fredrik Gertten
Stars: Fredrik Gertten, Alex Rivera, Alfonso Allende
Storyline Dole Food Company wages a campaign to prevent a pair of Swedish filmmakers from showing their documentary about a lawsuit against the company.
Cast: Alex Rivera
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Alfonso Allende
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Arvid Jurjaks
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Bart Simpson
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Bernt Hermele
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Charlotte Lundgren
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Dan Koeppel
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David Magdael
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Dawn Hudson
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Jesper Osmund
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Juan J. Dominguez
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Ken Silverstein
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Lars Åström
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Lincoln Bandlow
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Luciano Astudillo
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Taglines:
The true story about a Swedish filmmaker, a banana corporation, dirty tricks, lawsuits, manipulation and the price of free speech.
Trivia:
Milan International Film Festival 2012 - nominated for best editing and documentaries.
User Review
What's really going on?
Rating: 8/10
We had this documentary called "Bananas". It was about Nicaraguan
workers putting a law-suit on Dole for being poisoned. They won the
case. "Bananas" was about that.
But the director was about to face some problems. The Los Angeles film
festival was put under pressure, according to this new documentary, and
hardly dared to put "Bananas" on screen. The director not only got a
law-suit from Dole, Swedish journalists were put under pressure too. It
didn't end with that. Swedish MPs, who were about to see the film, got
letters. There were blog campaigns. A big machine started rolling.
This film is about that and it really is frightening viewing. The most
interesting question is however if strong companies try to direct free
speech. Is that were neo-liberal economics have lead us? We need to
discuss it. Without somebody trying to prevent us.
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