Breaking the Taboo

Fernando Grostein Andrade
2011-06-03


7.1
80 min

Narrated by Morgan Freeman, this groundbreaking new documentary uncovers the UN sanctioned war on drugs, charting its origins and its devastating impact on countries like the USA, Colombia and Russia. Featuring prominent statesmen including Presidents Clinton and Carter, the film follows The Global Commission on Drug Policy on a mission to break the political taboo and expose the biggest failure of global policy in the last 50 years

Cast

Name Character Team
Richard Nixon Self (archive footage) Unowned
Ronald Reagan Self (archive footage) Unowned
Fernando Henrique Cardoso Self Unowned
Vitor Onofre Self Unowned
Allan Turnowski Self Unowned
Carlos Oliveira Self Unowned
Dráuzio Varella Self Unowned
Bill Clinton Self Unowned
Ethan Nadelmann Self Unowned
Jimmy Carter Self Unowned
Ernesto Zedillo Self Unowned
Carlos Fuentes Self Unowned
Gael García Bernal Self The Free Refills
Moisés Naím Self Unowned
Pablo Escobar Self (archive footage) Unowned
César Gaviria Self Unowned
Andre Elissen Self Unowned
Anthony Papa Self Unowned
Neil Franklin Self Unowned
George H. W. Bush Self (archive footage) Unowned
Paulo Coelho Self Unowned
Jim Kolbe Self Unowned
Morgan Freeman Narrator (voice) Calvin and Nobbs
Paul Wilhelm Self Unowned
William Kramer Self Unowned
Bob Keizer Self Unowned
Freerk Bruinin Self Unowned
Kathrin Honer Self Unowned
Cedric Charvet Self Unowned
Ruth Dreifuss Self Unowned
Jean Claude Etienne Self Unowned
Gro Brundtland Self Unowned
Gregory Lannes Self Unowned
Howard Josepher Self Unowned
João Goulão Self Unowned
Miguel Vasconcelos Self Unowned
Manoel Pizarro Self Unowned
Washington Rimas Self Unowned
José Junior Self Unowned