The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind

Name: The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
Genre: Drama, History, Family
Released: 2019-02-14
Duration: 1 h 53 min
Rating: 7.5
Cast: Maxwell Simba, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Aïssa Maïga, Lily Banda, Joseph Marcell

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (2019)

Timing: 1:53 (113 min)

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Release date

2019-02-14

Country

Malawi, United Kingdom, United States

Production

BBC Film, Participant, BFI, Potboiler Productions

Genre

Drama, History, Family

Budget

Box office

Website

https://www.netflix.com/title/80200047

Director

Chiwetel Ejiofor

Actors

Maxwell Simba, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Aïssa Maïga, Lily Banda, Joseph Marcell, Lemogang Tsipa, Philbert Falakeza, Noma Dumezweni, Khalani Makunje, Robert Agengo
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Producer

Andrea Calderwood, Gail Egan, Natascha Wharton, Jonathan King, Jeff Skoll, Joe Oppenheimer, Peter Hampden, Norman Merry, Phil Hunt, Compton Ross

Camera operator

Dick Pope

Composer

Antonio Pinto

Artist

Tulé Peak

Audition

Alexa L. Fogel

Editing

Valerio Bonelli
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Short description

Against all the odds, a thirteen year old boy in Malawi invents an unconventional way to save his family and village from famine.

What's left behind the scenes

A film adaptation of the memoir of the same name by William Kamkwamba and Brian Miller.
Chiwetel Ejiofor had to learn Chichewa, the language spoken in the country of Malawi.