Beasts of No Nation
Child. Captive. Killer.
Country
Production
Budget
$6 000 000
Box office
$90 777
Director
Actors
Abraham Attah, Idris Elba, Emmanuel Nii Adom Quaye, Opeyemi Fagbohungbe, Emmanuel Affadzi, Richard Pepple, Ama K. Abebrese, Kobina Amissah-Sam, John Arthur, Kurt Egyiawan
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
Idris Elba, Amy Kaufman, Cary Joji Fukunaga, Daniela Taplin Lundberg, Riva Marker, Daniel Crown, Amy Kaufman, Nnamdi Asomugha, Bill Benenson, Todd Courtney
Camera operator
Composer
Artist
Inbal Weinberg
Audition
Editing
Mikkel E.G. Nielsen, Pete Beaudreau
Whole Team (44)
Whole Team (44)
Short description
Based on the experiences of Agu, a child fighting in the civil war of a 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.
What's left behind the scenes
- Filming took place in Ghana and lasted 36 days.
- To prepare for filming, Idris Elba stopped exercising, gained weight, stopped shaving, and shaved the hair from the front of his head to depict his character beginning to go bald. The actor wanted his hero to be different from the characters he usually plays – strong, fit, and well-groomed.
- Some actors were detained on suspicion of being mercenaries, and local residents had to be filmed in their place during mass scenes.
- During filming in Ghana, director Cary Fukunaga contracted malaria.
- The actor who played the naked soldier nicknamed 'Tripod' participated in the Liberian Civil War as part of the Liberian army. He insisted on filming naked himself.
- Infrared optics were used in the scene where the colors change from green to red. This scene was inspired by the "Enclave" project by Irish conceptual photographer Richard Moss, which he filmed in Congo.
- The most difficult part of the filmmaking process was delivering food to the set. As Cary Fukunaga said: "An army is led by its stomach. And so is a film set."
- In preparation for filming, Idris Elba stopped exercising, gained weight, stopped shaving, and shaved the hair from the front of his head to depict his character starting to go bald. The actor wanted his character to differ from the roles he typically plays—strong, fit, and well-groomed.
- While filming in Ghana, director Cary Fukunaga contracted malaria.
- The most difficult part of the filmmaking process proved to be delivering food to the set. As Cary Fukunaga put it: 'An army marches on its stomach. The filming process does too.'
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