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The Charcoal People

Rating:No Rating
Genre:Drama
Release Date:April 20, 2001
Running time:70 minutes
Director:Nigel Noble
Producer:José Padilha
Writer:José Padilha

Description: Explores the lives of sixty thousand laborers employed in cutting down forests and producing charcoal for the multi-national pig-iron industry. Poor, illiterate, isolated and indebted, these laborers engage in backbreaking toil which has calamitous social and health ramifications.

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