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Bananas!*

Denmark, Sweden

2009

88 Min
Color
English, Spanish
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DIR Fredrik Gertten

PROD Fredrik Gertten

SCR Fredrik Gertten

DP Joseph Aguirre, Frank Pineda

CAST Byron Rosales Romero, Juan J. Dominguez, Duane Miller, Rick McKnight, David Delorenzo

ED Jesper Osmund

MUSIC Nathan Larson

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The world’s biggest fruit company is on trial in the USA… for poisoning their workers!! For the first time in history a small US-lawfirm represents Nicaraguan plantation workers who are all infertile because of the toxic pesticides the fruit-corporation used on their bananas-plantations. Does a small lawfirm stand a chance against the power of a multi-billion dollar corporation? And will you ever eat bananas again after watching this revealing, suspenseful film? A “David against Goliath” war in every way… –IMDb

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By rommy on November 24, 2009

Bananas! by Swedish director Fredrik Gertten was a highly compelling and eye-opening look at the controversial use of pesticides by Dole Food Company and Dow Chemical in Latin America over the last…  read review

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