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Diaz - Don't Clean Up This Blood

Diaz - Don't Clean Up This Blood

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Status

Released

Release Date

Apr 13, 2012

Runtime

2h 7m

Genres

Drama, History

User Score

72%

Original Title

Diaz - Don't Clean Up This Blood

Production Companies

Fandango, Le Pacte, A Plus Image 3, Studioul de Creatie Cinematografica al Ministerului Culturii, Mandragora, MiC, BNL – Gruppo BNP Paribas, IDM Südtirol - Alto Adige Film Fund, Provincia Autonoma di Bolzano, Regione Lazio

Director

Daniele Vicari

Budget

$6,453,637

Revenue

$1,800,000

Description

On July 19–21, 2001, over 200,000 people took to the streets of Genoa to protest against the ongoing G8 summit. Anti-globalization activists clashed with the police, with 23-year-old protester Carlo Giuliani shot dead after confronting a police vehicle. In the aftermath, the police organized a night raid on the Diaz high school, where around a hundred people between unarmed protesters—mostly students—and independent reporters who documented the police brutality during the protests had took shelter. What happened next was called by Amnesty International "the most serious breach of civil liberties in a democratic Western country since World War II."