Blood Diamond

Adventure, Thriller

Leonardo DiCaprio	Danny Archer
Djimon Hounsou	Solomon Vandy
Jennifer Connelly	Maddy Bowen
Caruso Kuypers	Dia Vandy
Arnold Vosloo	Colonel Coetzee
Antony Coleman	Cordell Brown
Benu Mabhena	Jassie Vandy
David Harewood	Captain Poison
Basil Wallace	Benjamin Kapanay
Jimi Mistry	Nabil
Kagiso Kuypers	Dia Vandy
Marius Weyers	Van De Kaap
Michael Sheen	Simmons
Stephen Collins	Ambassador Walker
Ntare Mwine	M'Ed

Director	Edward Zwick
Producer	Edward Zwick; Darrell Roodt
Writer	Charles Leavitt; C. Gaby Mitchell
Cinematography	Eduardo Serra
Musician	James Newton Howard

Blood Diamond is about Danny Archer a mercenary from Rhodesia that moved to South Africa. He is involved with trading blood diamonds from Sierra Leone onto the world market. He comes across Solomon Vandy in prison who has found and hidden a large diamond worth millions. One of Solomon’s children is taken away by rebels in his absence and become trained as a child soldier. Eventually after much persuasion Danny and Solomon get together to go and find the diamond that he had hidden. The plot includes the “colonel” who taught Danny all about being a soldier when they were in the army together and he was his commanding officer. The colonel works with a large mercenary organisation in Africa that deals with governments and blood diamonds. He also wants a piece of this legendary enormous diamond which has been found and buried.