Movie · 2006
Blood Diamond
“It will cost you everything.”
Released 8 December 2006 143 min Drama / Thriller / Action More from 2006 → Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗
An ex-mercenary turned smuggler. A Mende fisherman. Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sierra Leone, these men join for two desperate missions: recovering a rare pink diamond of immense value and rescuing the fisherman's son, conscripted as a child soldier into the brutal rebel forces ripping a swath of torture and bloodshed countrywide.
FR·01
How old were they?
Winston Ntshona
as Old Mende
Marius Weyers
as Van De Kaap
Arnold Vosloo
as Colonel Coetzee
Djimon Hounsou
as Solomon Vandy
David Harewood
as Captain Poison
Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine
as M'Ed
Grant Swanby
as UNCHR Official
Michael Sheen
as Simmons
David S. Lee
as Cockney Journalist
Jennifer Connelly
as Maddy Bowen
Jimi Mistry
as Nabil
Leonardo DiCaprio
as Danny Archer
Zenzo Ngqobe
as Rebel 3
Kagiso Kuypers
as Dia Vandy
Antony Coleman
as Cordell Brown
Benu Mabhena
as Jassie Vandy
Anointing Lukola
as N'Yanda Vandy
Basil Wallace
as Benjamin Kapanay
Percy Matsemela
as Commander Zero
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The numbers
42years between the oldest and youngest billed
65Winston Ntshona — oldest on the call sheet
23Zenzo Ngqobe — youngest billed
41average age of the credited cast