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November 6, 2022

Charlemagne

The Chocolate War

Miki Mistrati | DK | 2022 | 80 minutes | E/d

Danish director Miki Mistrati sheds light on the dark side of the chocolate industry: In his documentary, he shows how US lawyer Terry Collingsworth takes action against chocolate giants who recklessly rely on illegal child labor in production. This despite the fact that the biggest players on the market signed an agreement to end child slavery twenty years ago.

Collingsworth's life's work is to fight against slavery and human trafficking. But the stakes are uneven, with food giants such as Nestlé and Cargill having entire armies of lawyers at their disposal. Nevertheless, the US lawyer succeeds in bringing the systematic exploitation of children in cocoa production in the Ivory Coast to the US Supreme Court. To do this, he needs further evidence. So he meets his six main witnesses in Mali. And he travels to the Ivory Coast to a center for the rehabilitation of enslaved children supported by governments and NGOs. It is unused, no children in sight. They work on the plantations to keep the price of cocoa beans low...

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Genre: Documentary

economy and consumption

Swiss premiere

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