JOHNNY MAD DOG

Overview

Directed by:

Jean-Stéphane SAUVAIRE

Country:

FRANCE, BELGIUM, LIBERIA

Year:

2008

Duration:

97 minutes

Awards:

Prize of Hope, 2008

Credits

Jean-Stéphane SAUVAIRE

- Director

Jean-Stéphane SAUVAIRE

- Screenplay

Jacques FIESCHI

- Screenplay

Marc KONINCKX

- Cinematography

Alexandre VIVET

- Set Designer

Jackson Tennessee FOURGEAUD

- Music

Stéphane ELMADJIAN

- Film Editor

Yves COMELIAU

- Sound

LES KOUZ

- Sound

Actors

Christopher MINIE

- JOHNNY MAD DOG

Daisy Victoria VANDY

- LAOKOLE

Synopsis

Today, in contemporary Africa.

Johnny, 15, a kid-soldier armed to the hilt, is inhabited by the mad dog he dreams of becoming.

With his small commando – No Good Advice, Small Devil, Young Major – he robs, pillages, and slays everything in his path.

Laokolé, 16, pushing her disabled facther around in a rickety wheelbarrow, attempting to invent the glorious future which her brilliant studies seem to have in store for her, strives to flee her city occupied by teenage-soldier militias, with her little brother Fofo, 8.

As Johnny advances, Laokolé flees . . .

Under the windows of embassies, NGOs, the High Commissionership for Refugees, teenagers fed by Hollywood imagery and disinformation play at war. The militias fight enemies dubbed “Patriots”; the “Dogo-Mayis” want to exterminate the “Mayi-Dogos”; the adolescent warlords call themselves “Giap” or “Rambo” and kill each other over a TV set, a basket of fruit, or a misplaced word.

Childhoods cut short, an Africa ravaged by absurd wars, a people who are trying, in spite of it all, to survive and to save their humanity.

Contacts and useful links

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