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Title:

Diamonds and rust / the New Israeli Foundation for Cinema & Television, Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport, Arts and Culture Administration ; produced in association with TVOntario ; produced and directed by Adi Barash and Ruthie Shatz.

Publisher:

First Run/Icarus Films,

Copyright Date:

2001

Description:

1 videocassette (73 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.

Subject:

Diamond mines and mining--Atlantic Coast.--Atlantic Coast.
Ocean mining--Atlantic Coast.--Atlantic Coast.
Merchant mariners--Atlantic Coast.--Atlantic Coast.
De Beers Consolidated Mines.
Africa, Southern--Race relations.
Documentary films.

Other Authors:

Barash, Adi, 1970- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2002049624
Shatz, Ruthie, 1973- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2002049628
Ḳeren ḥa-ḥadashah le-ḳolnoʻa ule-ṭeleṿizyah. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2001077692
TVOntario. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81083621

Notes:

Originally released as a motion picture in 2001.

Summary:

A cinema vérité documentary that spends 90 days in 1999 with the crew members of a De Beers diamond mining ship off the coast of Namibia. Racial and other tensions are observed as the white South African officers, Cuban captain and cook, Israeli security manager and black Namibian deck hands work punishing hours on the rusty old ship.

OCLC:

(OCoLC)49932339

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)