JOHNNY MAD DOG

By Jean Stephane SAUVAIRE

NEWEN CONNECT A TF1 GROUP COMPANY - as SALES

Drama - Completed 2008

A DEEPLY MOVING FEATURE FILM ABOUT AFRICAN CHILD SOLDIERS PRODUCED BY MATHIEU KASSOVITZ AND BENOÎT JAUBERT.

    • Year of production
    • 2008
    • Genres
    • Drama
    • Countries
    • FRANCE, LIBERIA
    • Languages
    • FRENCH
    • Duration
    • 95 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Jean Stephane SAUVAIRE
    • Writer(s)
    • Jacques FIESCHI, Jean Stephane SAUVAIRE
    • EIDR
    • 10.5240/C6B6-3E66-B8FF-10B5-6AD6-A
    • Producer(s)
    • Benoit JAUBERT, Mathieu KASSOVITZ
    • Synopsis
    • Today, in contemporary Africa. Johnny, 15, a kid-soldier with the look of a gangsta rapper, 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, 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 disabled father and her little brother Fofo, 8. As Johnny advances, Laokolé flees...