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Encyclopedia > Death is a Diamond

Death is a Diamond is a 2004 film, premiering on late-December, and was shot from July 2004 to October 2004. February 2006 : ← - January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- → 1 February 2006 (Wednesday) Governor of West Virginia Joe Manchin asks for a halt in coal mining following two more coal mining deaths in the state that saw fourteen people die in coal mining disasters in...


The film is about three rival gangs, all fighting over a batch of blood diamonds that have been illegally bought from Nigeria to Sydney. The film sold very well in Australia upon it's release, but it gained a large amount of criticism for the amount of violence depicted and sales quickly dropped.


Producers Matthew Scott and Daniel Okoduwa planned to create a sequel but due to the back lash, Scott went on and created Questions instead while Okoduwa went on to produce Love, Lost and Temptation (which went on to be one of the most sought after Australian/Nigerian films of 2005). Matthew Scott (born July 30, 1985 in Longreach, Queensland) is a rugby league player for the North Queensland Cowboys in the National Rugby League competition. ... Questions (2005) Questions is an Australian drama. ...


Cast

  • Itua – Daniel Okoduwa
  • Chief of Police – Derek Huckel
  • Nach – Tete Awotedu
  • Nosa – Peter Ogoke
  • Kane – Matthew Scott
  • Naomi – Kristina Adesuwa
  • Domino – Kadija Kromah
  • Officer Wells – Steven Peter Blunt

Matthew Scott (born July 30, 1985 in Longreach, Queensland) is a rugby league player for the North Queensland Cowboys in the National Rugby League competition. ...

External link

  • Death is a Diamond on Africa Web Australia

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Conflict diamond - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (794 words)
A conflict diamond (also called a blood diamond or a war diamond) is a diamond mined in a war zone and sold, usually clandestinely, in order to finance an insurgent or invading army's war efforts.
The same argument is used by makers of cultured diamonds such as Gemesis and Apollo Diamond.
Blood diamonds were the main theme of the 2004 Australian/Nigerian film Death is a Diamond.
Jack Diamond - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (573 words)
Diamond entered crime as a member of a gang called the Hudson Dusters.
Diamond was shot five times on one occasion when Schultz's men surprised him at a private dinner and three times on another, when Schultz gunmen opened up with machine guns, killing two bystanders.
Diamond was also the subject of director Budd Boetticher's 1960 film The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond starring Ray Danton and Warren Oates as well as a 1988 broadway musical later based on the movie.
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