Breaking the Taboo

Name: Breaking the Taboo
Director: Fernando Grostein Andrade
Released: 2011
Duration: 80 min
Rating: 7.6
Cast: Fran Boyd Andrews, Brenda Blom, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Jimmy Carter, Jorge Castañeda

2011 · 80 MIN · IMDB 7.6 · 1,035 VOTES · DIR. Fernando Grostein Andrade

Overview

Narrated by Morgan Freeman, this groundbreaking new documentary uncovers the UN sanctioned war on drugs, charting its origins and its devastating impact on countries like the USA, Colombia and Russia. Featuring prominent statesmen including Presidents Clinton and Carter, the film follows The Global Commission on Drug Policy on a mission to break the political taboo and expose the biggest failure of global policy in the last 50 years

Dialogue Timeline — 6 lines

01:09:07 declared war on drugs."

01:12:36 were first-time offenders and 86º/º were not carrying any weapons."

01:12:39 "The health care system doesn't have the necessary structure to treat most

01:12:44 of the drug users."

01:12:46 "All across Brazil, youth are still dying and killing in the name of an endless war."

01:13:06 "Forty years later, it's time for the world to declare peace."

Cast & Characters

Fran Boyd Andrews Self - Former Drug Addict Brenda Blom Self - Community Lawyer, Baltimore Fernando Henrique Cardoso Self - President of Brazil, 1995 - 2002 Jimmy Carter Self - US President, 1977 - 1981 Jorge Castañeda Self - Secreatary of Foreign Affairs, Mexico 2000 - 2003 Bill Clinton Self - US President, 1993 - 2001 Paulo Coelho Self - Novelist Richard Dannart Ruth Dreifuss Self - President of Switzerland, 1999 Robert DuPont

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed6

Dialogue density0.1 lines / min

First line01:09:07

Final line01:13:06

Production Record

DirectorFernando Grostein Andrade

LanguagePortuguese

Budget$2,000,000

IMDb votes1,035