438 Days
438 dagar
On the eve of June 28th, 2011 Swedish journalists Martin Schibbye and Johan Persson put everything at stake by illegally crossing the border from Somalia into Ethiopia. After months of research, planning and failed attempts, they were finally on their way to report on how the ruthless hunt for oil effected the population of the isolated and conflict-ridden Ogaden region. Five days later they lay wounded in the desert sand, shot and captured by the Ethiopian army. But when their initial reportage died, another story began. A story about lawlessness, propaganda and global politics. After a Kafkaesque trial they were sentenced to eleven years in prison for terrorism. And they were far from alone. Their cellmates were journalists, writers and politicians persecuted for not bowing down to dictatorship. Their reportage about oil was transformed into a story about ink, and their daily lives turned into a fight for survival inside the notorious Kality prison in Addis Ababa.
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Matias Varela
as Johan Persson
Gunilla Johansson
as Kickan Persson
Frederik Nilsson
as Kjell Persson
Faysal Ahmed
as Abdullahi Hussein
Lena B. Nilsson
as Karin Schibbye
Pär Luttropp
as TV Journalist
Jesper Ganslandt
as Fredrik Spik
Sivuyile Ngesi
as Chala
Stephen Jennings
as Steven Irving
Fredrik Skavlan
as Skavlan
Farouk Valley-Omar
as Chief Prosecutor
Josefin Neldén
as Linnéa Schibbye
Gustaf Skarsgård
as Martin Schibbye
Philip Zandén
as Carl Bildt
Nathaniel Ramabulana
as Werar
Graham Clarke
as Bruno
Magnus Sundberg
as Reporter #3
