Minamata

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Cinematographer: Benoît Delhomme

Director: Andrew Levitas

Producer: Andrew Levitas, Bill Johnson, David Kessler, Gabrielle Tana, Johnny Depp, Kevan Van Thompson, Sam Sarkar

Writer: Andrew Levitas, David Kessler, Jason Forman, Stephen Deuters

Production designer: Tom Foden

Editor: Nathan Nugent

Cast: Bill Nighy, Johnny Depp, Katherine Jenkins

Production Company: Infinitum Nihil, Metalwork Pictures

Distribution company (world): HanWay Films

Distribution company: Forum Film Poland

Year: 2020

Country: USA

Time: 115

W. Eugene Smith is a legendary American photojournalist whose photographs taken for Life magazine during the Second World War became synonymous with outstanding journalistic work. Over two decades later, Smith is still an esteemed specialist, but his raging alcoholism and depression gave him the reputation of a problematic collaborator. Everything changes when he accidentally engages in the decades-long struggle of the people from the Japanese city of Minamata, who are dying from eating mercury-contaminated fish. A negligent corporation and its factory dumping mercury into the nearby river are the culprits. Can Smith, a broken man, do something?

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