Beasts of No Nation

Beasts of No Nation (2015)

Timing: 2:17 (137 min)

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Actors and characters

Release date

2015-09-11

Country

Brazil, United States

Production

Participant, Mutressa Movies, Red Crown Productions, Levante Filmes, Primary Productions, Parliament of Owls

Genre

Drama, War

Budget

$6 000 000

Revenue

$90 777

Website

https://www.netflix.com/title/80044545

Director

Cary Joji Fukunaga

Actors

Abraham Attah, Idris Elba, Emmanuel Nii Adom Quaye, Opeyemi Fagbohungbe, Emmanuel Affadzi, Richard Pepple, Ama K. Abebrese, Kobina Amissah-Sam, John Arthur, Kurt Egyiawan
All actors and roles (10)

Scenario

Producer

Idris Elba, Amy Kaufman, Cary Joji Fukunaga, Daniela Taplin Lundberg, Riva Marker, Daniel Crown, Nnamdi Asomugha, Bill Benenson, Todd Courtney

Operator

Cary Joji Fukunaga

Composer

Dan Romer

Artist

Audition

Editing

Mikkel E.G. Nielsen, Pete Beaudreau
All team (19)

• Filming took place in Ghana and lasted 36 days.
• Infrared optics were used in the scene where the colors change from green to red. This scene was inspired by the "Enclave" project by Irish conceptual photographer Richard Moss, which he shot in Congo.
• To prepare for filming, Idris Elba stopped exercising, gained weight, stopped shaving, and shaved the hair from the front of his head to depict his character beginning to go bald. The actor wanted his hero to be different from the characters he usually plays – strong, fit, and well-groomed.
• Some actors were detained on suspicion of being mercenaries, and local residents had to be filmed in their place during mass scenes.
• During filming in Ghana, director Cary Fukunaga contracted malaria.
• The most difficult part of making the film turned out to be delivering food to the set. As Cary Fukunaga said: "An army marches on its stomach. And so does the filming process."
• The actor who played the naked soldier nicknamed 'Tripod' participated in the Liberian Civil War as part of the Liberian army. He insisted on filming naked himself.
• Infrared optics were used in the scene where the colors change from green to red. This scene was inspired by the "Enclave" project by Irish conceptual photographer Richard Moss, which he filmed in Congo.
• The most difficult part of the filmmaking process was delivering food to the set. As Cary Fukunaga said: "An army is led by its stomach. And so is a film set."