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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (2019)

Feb 14, 2019 Drama, History 1h 53m
79%
User Score
7.6/10
86%
68/100

Overview

Against all the odds, a thirteen year old boy in Malawi invents an unconventional way to save his family and village from famine.

Chiwetel Ejiofor
Director

Top Billed Cast

Maxwell Simba
Maxwell Simba

William Kamkwamba
Chiwetel Ejiofor
Chiwetel Ejiofor

Trywell Kamkwamba
Aïssa Maïga
Aïssa Maïga

Agnes Kamkwamba
Lily Banda
Lily Banda

Annie Kamkwamba
Joseph Marcell
Joseph Marcell

Chief Wembe
Lemogang Tsipa
Lemogang Tsipa

Mike Kachigunda
Philbert Falakeza
Philbert Falakeza

Gilbert Wimbe
Noma Dumezweni
Noma Dumezweni

Edith Sikelo
Khalani Makunje
Khalani Makunje

Daniel Ngwata

Full Cast & Crew

Media

The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind | Offical Trailer [HD] | Netflix
The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind | Offical Trailer [HD] | Netflix
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Reviews

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A review by CinemaSerf
Written on March 28, 2022

This is a great looking film depicting the abject poverty, despite their best efforts, of a subsistence farming community in Malawi. The cinematography is glorious as we follow the Kamkwamba family's struggles to educate their children and feed themselves at the same time - in the face of some pretty brutal government corruption and a severe drought. Son "William" (Maxwell Simba) is thirteen, and he has more than an average degree of nouse to him - he concludes, after studying a few engineering books in his school's library - that by cannibalising an old bike and an old ghetto-blaster, he can create a turbine mechanism that could be used to generate electrical power to pump water and help them to improve their harvest, and their lives... Chiwitel Ejiofor is his rather sceptical father, str...

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