Minamata (film)
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Original title | Minamata |
Country of production | United Kingdom |
original language | English , Japanese |
Publishing year | 2020 |
length | 115 minutes |
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Director | Andrew Levitas |
script |
David K. Kessler , Stephen Deuters , Andrew Levitas, Jason Forman |
production |
Johnny Depp , Bill Johnson , David K. Kessler, Andrew Levitas, Sam Sarkar , Gabrielle Tana , Kevan Van Thompson |
music | Ryuichi Sakamoto |
camera | Benoît Delhomme |
cut | Nathan Nugent |
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Minamata is a film drama by Andrew Levitas that premiered at the Berlin Film Festival in February 2020 . The biography tells about the photographer W. Eugene Smith and how he told the world about a mass poisoning with mercury in the Japanese city of Minamata .
production
For the American painter, sculptor, photographer and actor Andrew Levitas, Minamata was the second feature film after his debut film Lullaby (2014). The shooting took place from January 2019 in Minamata, Serbia and Montenegro. The first screening of the film took place on February 21, 2020 as part of the Berlin Film Festival .
reception
Overall, the film received mixed feedback from the critics.
Web links
- Minamata in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Minamata in the program of the Berlin Film Festival
- Johnny Depp fighting human injustice. Film review in: Uncut.at 2020,