District 9

District 9

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Director:Neill Blomkamp
Cast:Sharlto Copley, Jason Cope, David James, Vanessa Haywood
Premiere:17. September 2009
Length:112 minutes
Genre:Scifi

Director: Neill Blomkamp  •  Cast: Sharlto Copley, Jason Cope, David James, Vanessa Haywood, Mandla Gaduka, Kenneth Nkosi, Eugene Khumbanyiwa, Louis Minnaar, William Allen Young

The on-screen encounters of humans and aliens have multiple outcomes – peaceful enrichment, a bloody war, and even the end of the world. But what if humankind decided that chasing the extraterrestrial visitors off to a refugee camp in Johannesburg would be for the best? The debut of South African director Neill Blomkamp presents this premise in a very physical way: the aliens, derogatorily called “Prawns” by humans, are degraded to beings of the lowest category, and the film is oftentimes reminiscent of a raw war drama rather than classic sci-fi. Nevertheless, it shook the genre in such a way hardly any film managed to in the past fifteen years.

Length: 112 min

Year: 2009
Local premiere date: 17. September 2009
World premiere date: 13. August 2009

Country of origin:

  • United states of America
  • South Africa
  • Canada
  • New Zealand

Director: Neill Blomkamp  •  Cast: Sharlto Copley, Jason Cope, David James, Vanessa Haywood, Mandla Gaduka, Kenneth Nkosi, Eugene Khumbanyiwa, Louis Minnaar, William Allen Young

The on-screen encounters of humans and aliens have multiple outcomes – peaceful enrichment, a bloody war, and even the end of the world. But what if humankind decided that chasing the extraterrestrial visitors off to a refugee camp in Johannesburg would be for the best? The debut of South African director Neill Blomkamp presents this premise in a very physical way: the aliens, derogatorily called “Prawns” by humans, are degraded to beings of the lowest category, and the film is oftentimes reminiscent of a raw war drama rather than classic sci-fi. Nevertheless, it shook the genre in such a way hardly any film managed to in the past fifteen years.

Year: 2009
Local premiere date: 17. September 2009
World premiere date: 13. August 2009

Country of origin:

  • United states of America
  • South Africa
  • Canada
  • New Zealand