# Uwe Boll Film About the Genocide in Darfur

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [November 5, 2009, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uwe-boll-film-about-the-genocide-in-darfur/516423 "2009-11-05T15:14:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2009, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uwe-boll-film-about-the-genocide-in-darfur/516423/1 "2009-11-05T15:14:53Z")

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[I swear I am not making this up](http://www.cinematical.com/2009/11/02/uwe-bolls-darfur-movie-trailer/):

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> Yes, you read that headline correctly. Dr. Uwe Boll, the notorious filmmaker behind the likes of House of the Dead, Bloodrayne, In the Name of the King: a Dungeon Siege Tale, Alone in the Dark, and Postal, has made a film - a serious one - about the ongoing conflict in the Darfur region of Sudan…
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> Now it would be easy to not take the film seriously given who is involved, but I can attest that there was genuine frustration in Boll’s voice when he talked about tackling the material. However, the credibility he earned by showing a more noble side than one normally sees in his filmography quickly took a nose dive as Boll explained he used actual Darfur refugees in making the film. That sounds no alarms at first, but he further explained that he had actual rape victims in his cast, victims who were asked to re-enact their rape on camera; because that kind of ‘honesty’ was the only way he could capture how dire the situation is…

:eek::eek::eek:

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**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2009, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uwe-boll-film-about-the-genocide-in-darfur/516423/2 "2009-11-05T18:26:50Z")

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For maybe the first time in my life, I can say with ABSOLUTE CERTAINTY that this movie will suck.

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**Author:** ![runcible\_spoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9fc29f/32.png) [@runcible\_spoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/runcible_spoon)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2009, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uwe-boll-film-about-the-genocide-in-darfur/516423/3 "2009-11-07T20:02:20Z")

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> [@G0sp3l](#):
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> For maybe the first time in my life, I can say with ABSOLUTE CERTAINTY that this movie will suck.

So, you hadn’t heard of Uwe Boll’s previous movies?

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**Author:** ![Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uosdwis_R.Dewoh)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2009, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uwe-boll-film-about-the-genocide-in-darfur/516423/4 "2009-11-07T20:13:22Z")

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Don’t worry. With Uwe Boll’s track record of totally butchering the stories of the video games he adapted, this movie will have nothing to do with the genocide in Darfur. Instead it will be probably be about, oh I don’t know… cheerleaders fighting Nazis perhaps?