Released
The Bang Bang Club
April 22 2011 (over 13 years ago)Rating
66
Based on
163 reviews
Sometimes you get too close
- Director: Steven Silver
- Writer: Steven Silver
- Genres: Drama, History
- Runtime: 1 h 46 m
- Countries: Canada, South Africa
- Company: Film Foundry Partners
In the early to mid '90s, when the South African system of apartheid was in its death throes, four photographers - Greg Marinovich, Kevin Carter, Ken Oosterbroek and João Silva - bonded by their friendship and a sense of purpose, worked together to chronicle the violence and upheaval leading up to the 1994 election of Nelson Mandela as president. Their work is risky and dangerous, potentially fatally so, as they thrust themselves into the middle of chaotic clashes between forces backed by the government (including Inkatha Zulu warriors) and those in support of Mandela's African National Congress.
