Release Date

30 Aug, 2019

Runtime

02:04: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

On the eve of June 28th, 2011 Swedish journalists Martin Schibbye and Johan Persson put everything at stake by illegally crossing the border from Somalia into Ethiopia. After months of research, planning and failed attempts, they were finally on their way to report on how the ruthless hunt for oil effected the population of the isolated and conflict-ridden Ogaden region. Five days later they lay wounded in the desert sand, shot and captured by the Ethiopian army. But when their initial reportage died, another story began. A story about lawlessness, propaganda and global politics. After a Kafkaesque trial they were sentenced to eleven years in prison for terrorism. And they were far from alone. Their cellmates were journalists, writers and politicians persecuted for not bowing down to dictatorship. Their reportage about oil was transformed into a story about ink, and their daily lives turned into a fight for survival inside the notorious Kality prison in Addis Ababa.

Original Title

438 dagar

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Actors

Gustaf Skarsgård

Matias Varela

Faysal Ahmed

Nathaniel Ramabulana

Fredrik Evers

Josefin Neldén

Philip Zandén

Jesper Ganslandt

Sivuyile Ngesi

Samuel Mtoti

Gunilla Johansson

Frederik Nilsson

Lena B. Nilsson

Graham Clarke

Stephen Jennings

Fredrik Skavlan

Farouk Valley-Omar

Mohamed Kalif Barre

Pär Luttropp

Tobias Åström

Åsa Janson

Crew

Hanna Lejonqvist

Jesper Ganslandt

Peter Birro

Martin Schibbye

Johan Persson

Sandra Harms

Karl Fredrik Ulfung

Sophia Olsson

Bonnie Lee Bouman

Mito Skellern

Sara Törnkvist

Fred Du Preez

Louise Drake af Hagelsrum

Louise Drake af Hagelsrum