Give Us the Money
Released: December 1, 2012Runtime: 59 min
Can glitz and celebrity save the world? Thirty years ago, rock stars Bob Geldof and Bono set out on a journey to fight poverty in Africa. They tried to convince some of the wiliest and mightiest politicians on earth to change the world. Give us the Money tracks their journey through famines and palaces, and world-wide TV-audiences. But how successful have they really been? Did they manage to make the world a better place? Bosse Lindquist's film tracks the history of this idea. "A band of musicians set out to change the world" he says "and now the time has come to ask: What did they achieve, and is celebrity politics is the right way of combating world poverty?"'
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Pooneh Ghoddoosi
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Bob Geldof
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Bono
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Ato Woldu
as Self - farmer, Tigray Region, Ethiopia
Gebru Asrat
as Self - former president of Tigray Region, Ethiopia
Jamie Drummond
as Self - co-founded the advocacy organization DATA
Muhammad Ali
as Self
Ann Pettifor
as Self - Drop the Debt campaign
Bill Clinton
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Tom Hart
as Self - lobbyist for The Episcopal Church
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