Galamsey - For a Fistful of Gold | Documentary about the illegal gold business in Ghana
A Documentary about illegal gold business in West Africa. What does it mean for residents of a small town in Ghana to live on top of a huge gold deposit?
As a young development worker the narrator experienced a gold rush in a small town in Ghana. Some years later he returns to find out what the gold really means for residents of this town. On his journey he meets old friends, arrives at places of destruction and learns about a dangerous magnetism
between people and gold. In the small town a bloody conflict broke out between local police and gold miners. Who are profiteers and who are victims in this hunt for glittering stones?
Director: Johannes Preuss
Cinematography: Johannes Preuss
Filmmusic: Chiara Strickland
Sounddesign: Claudio Demel
Editing: Manuel Sosnowski
Animation: Oleg Kauz
© 2017, Licensed by Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg
Пікірлер: 55
I will show this video to the world! Everyone share it!
I hope Ras K was compensated for how involved he was in this documentary, he’s such a good narrator
very good video - learned a lot. Very good editing. Thanks for your effort.
Thanks for this
Man said “If we don’t take care, One day, Ghana will be in hell”. As if Ghana isn’t already in hell.
@fredkwabenaakoto823
Жыл бұрын
HAHAHAHAHAHAH
@karolinakuc4783
7 ай бұрын
Maybe he wanted to say Ghana will be worse hell. I mean mining destroys environment
Africa is so Beautiful.... Thanks Family
Excellent film. Top,
Two of my favorite things gold and mercury
To live on top such abundance of gold and to strive to live. 🤔
Well put together.
@magnetfilm can i show this video for educational purpose in my artwork at school
Shout out to my Galamsey brothers in Ghana.Hit me up for Business.😉
Wow!
Los ermanos sucesso
Little knowledge is very dangerous in the sense that the environment degradation is taking place.,rivers poisoning and health hazardous. It would be much better if they had planted some seeds, use the water in the river to water their plants or food is mor valuable than gold
@josephkandengwa1488
8 ай бұрын
✌🏽
When elite do call business when poor work hard call illegal mining shame 😅 on society
@somsackvongsa7077
10 ай бұрын
Agree.all about money.
Excellent! It is a devil' bargain, that's for sure.
@bhuvanareddy8252
2 жыл бұрын
Gg to
250 euros for a pound of gold?? maybe i should go to ghana and buy some gold there..
Honestly I have many feelings about this video: 1 I'm sick of our own people extorting each other to white people. This was a set up, and I hate that the producer used the friends of this guy to manipulate him into doing the interview. He trusted the fake investor, brought you around his family and their children, just to unturn be set up. Not right! My next feeling is people do what must be done to survive. They just want to live a happy life and take care of themselves. I would have preferred efforts of alternatives to work is work more sustainable. Figuring out ways to get his gold without harming the environment is a much better way to help the people and the land. These are not bad people, their good people, who need better opportunities. While I hate what is happening to the water, I believe finding an alternative, sustainable way of doing the work will benefit all parties. I pray this guy and his friends are safe, free and unharmed, due to being extorted by his own people. The tactics of how you got this video done was horrible and reminds me of the slave trade. I'm so disappointed.
@ganjacat8408
Жыл бұрын
What do you mean, to white people??? Last I checked, for ALL of human history, all humans, all races, and all cultures, especially all people today, want and will acquire gold. Mining doesnt harm the environment, in spite of what eco nuts lie to people about. Gold mining = jobs and money for people. Gold literally IS money ffs!
@David-zq6ho
9 ай бұрын
Mercury a death sentence. ...
@djkush8495
3 ай бұрын
Glad to know I'm not the only one that feels this way.
matur suksma
Is that really pound of gold?
they use the same water for eating and drinking
😢 my land has been destroyed
At the end of the documentary they ate from the same river they polluted. So in essence they are killing them selves.
The blame shouldn’t be on the Galamsey but on the foreigners looting the resources of the locals
@briopalumpus8676
Жыл бұрын
with out local help foregners wount stand a chance, if locals dont welcome them they will run away
@ganjacat8408
Жыл бұрын
@@briopalumpus8676 exactly. everyone needs eachother, western equipment and supplies means more gold is mined, and that means more money for everyone. Its a win win. Anyone anti-mining is simply a commie nut job.
@Moonhachi
Жыл бұрын
That’s narrow minded thinking selling your wealth and dignity because you are hungry is like given away your child for a bag of rice and then You turn around to complain and blame who ever you gave your child
@briopalumpus8676
Жыл бұрын
@@Moonhachi such a smart idiom. they just need to make a small scrifise and genrational poverty in africa will be done with, imagine being a citizen of kuwait or qatar. or being born swiss. africa is far richer than these supposedly rich countries,
The DCE 🤣🤣
And none of them is putting the precious gold
Funny how gold bugs say Bitcoin is bad for the environment 😂🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️
And come to think Mansa Musa was the wealthiest man on Earth.
Mag aral
Africa Go back to your roots.
I will share this video with Michelle Obama and his husband.
So the Chinese stole lots of gold, but how many of them were shot? Same story, different era-- African resources stolen, the people exploited and left with nothing.
All these could have been prevented by condom
see that's why we don't want the subsaharans migrating to our land, they have the most beautiful and richest lands in the world, they should do something about them, like we did with ours without their ressources... in Morocco we only have phosphate, tourism and a bit of industry, nothing else... and we don't migrate massively to the subsaharan countries right ? The only people going there are businessmen, workers/benevols of NPO's, and officials... do the same, don't come to our countries MASSIVELY, don't come if you're not a businessman, or an official... that's a question of respect, when we go to your countries, we respect you, do the same... and start to work hard for a better future, you have no excuse, because again, your lands are the best, I'd gladly trade Morocco for Ghana or Ivory Coast, anytime I swear
@karolinakuc4783
7 ай бұрын
You migrate to Europe and do crimes.