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    Big Boys Gone Bananas!

    Poster of the movie Big Boys Gone Bananas!
    2011     Biography documentary    
    USA/Sweden/United Kingdom
    1h 30min
    Original lang: English, Swedish

    Swedish director Fredrik Gertten receives post from multinational food giant Dole. The message's tone is not happy. Dole threaten him with legal action if his film criticising banana plantations Bananas (2009) is shown in public. Soon festivals planning to show the film, journalists writing about it and those close to Gertten also receive post. Pressure, manipulation and media war -- the plantations' problems cannot be spoken about publicly.

    In the sequel to the film Bananas, one man's banana war grows into a national fight for freedom of speech. When Gertten gets Swedish Members of Parliament on his side, cinema distribution of the film is arranged in Sweden. However, in the USA Dole manages to pressure festivals and editorial offices to side with it. The film draws a parallel between the USA and the Nordic countries in a way that stings: money or freedom of speech, which will win?

    Directed byFredrik Gertten

    Featuring

    Alex Rivera
    Alfonso Allende
    Arvid Jurjaks
    Bart Simpson
    Bernt Hermele
    Charlotte Lundgren
    Dan Koeppel
    David Magdael
    Dawn Hudson
    Jesper Osmund
    + MORE

    Video

    1:36

    Trailer

    11 years ago

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