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BEASTS OF NO NATION

Release Date: 10/16/2015

 

About In West Africa, the life of young Agu ($Abraham Attah) is disrupted when his father is slaughtered in a civil war and he is inscripted as a child soldier into a mercenary unit led by the sadistic Commandant ($Idris Elba).






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