EXTERMINATES ALL THE BRUTES

A film by Raoul Peck

Cast : Raoul Peck, Josh Hartnett, Casia Ankarsparre, Richard Brake

2021 / documentary / Etats-Unis / 4 x 60’ / Color / status : completed / English / General Audience / TV series / International collections

Based on works by three authors and scholars, Sven Lindqvist’s Exterminate All the Brutes, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz’s An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States, and Michel-Rolph Trouillot’s Silencing the Past, Exterminate All the Brutes revisits and reframes the profound meaning of the Native American genocide and American slavery, and their fundamental implications for our present.

Press

“It is literally a film in Peck’s voice, and that strength, and that audacity, also gives rise to its artistic peculiarities.”

The New Yorker

“daring, imaginative and defiantly challenging artwork”

The Hollywood Reporter

“an electrifying instruction manual.”

Time Magazine

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