Breaking the Taboo (2011)
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
Director:
Fernando Grostein Andrade
Writers:
Fernando Grostein Andrade, Ilona Szabó de Carvalho, Thomaz Souto Corrêa, Ricardo Setti, Bruno R. Modolo, Carolina Kotscho.
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Richard Nixon as Self (archive footage) |
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Ronald Reagan as Self (archive footage) |
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Fernando Henrique Cardoso as Self |
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Vitor Onofre as Self |
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Allan Turnowski as Self |
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Carlos Oliveira as Self |
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Dráuzio Varella as Self |
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Bill Clinton as Self |
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Ethan Nadelmann as Self |
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Jimmy Carter as Self |
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Ernesto Zedillo as Self |
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Carlos Fuentes as Self |
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Gael García Bernal as Self |
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Moisés Naím as Self |
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Pablo Escobar as Self (archive footage) |
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César Gaviria as Self |
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Andre Elissen as Self |
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Anthony Papa as Self |
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Neil Franklin as Self |
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George H. W. Bush as Self (archive footage) |
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Paulo Coelho as Self |
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Jim Kolbe as Self |
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Morgan Freeman as Narrator (voice) |
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Paul Wilhelm as Self |
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William Kramer as Self |
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Bob Keizer as Self |
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Freerk Bruinin as Self |
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Kathrin Honer as Self |
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Cedric Charvet as Self |
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Ruth Dreifuss as Self |
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Jean Claude Etienne as Self |
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Gro Brundtland as Self |
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Gregory Lannes as Self |
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Howard Josepher as Self |
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João Goulão as Self |
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Miguel Vasconcelos as Self |
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Manoel Pizarro as Self |
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Washington Rimas as Self |
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José Junior as Self |
| Directing | Fernando Grostein Andrade | Director |
| Production | Fernando Menocci | Producer |
| Production | Silvana Tinelli | Producer |
| Production | Luciano Huck | Producer |
| Production | Gustavo Halbreich | Associate Producer |
| Editing | Jair Peres | Editor |
| Editing | Leticia Giffoni | Editor |
| Camera | Fernando Grostein Andrade | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Rafael Levy | Director of Photography |
| Writing | Fernando Grostein Andrade | Screenplay |
| Writing | Ilona Szabó de Carvalho | Screenplay |
| Writing | Thomaz Souto Corrêa | Screenplay |
| Writing | Ricardo Setti | Screenplay |
| Writing | Bruno R. Modolo | Screenplay |
| Writing | Carolina Kotscho | Screenplay |
