Beasts of No Nation (2015)
Release Date
2015-09-11
Rating
8
Duration
137 min
Countries
Keywords
guerrilla warfare civil war based on novel or book africa refugee machete drug use jungle child soldier west africa children in wartime brutal violence
Qualities
Based on the experiences of Agu, a child fighting in the civil war of an unnamed, fictional West African country. Follows Agu's journey as he's forced to join a group of soldiers. While he fears his commander and many of the men around him, his fledgling childhood has been brutally shattered by the war raging through his country, and he is at first torn between conflicting revulsion and fascination.
