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

  • @SuperChris501
    @SuperChris501 Жыл бұрын

    I will show this video to the world! Everyone share it!

  • @kiv_daniels
    @kiv_daniels Жыл бұрын

    I hope Ras K was compensated for how involved he was in this documentary, he’s such a good narrator

  • @akimalam2041
    @akimalam2041Ай бұрын

    very good video - learned a lot. Very good editing. Thanks for your effort.

  • @willniava3613
    @willniava36132 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for this

  • @logomoniclearning6680
    @logomoniclearning6680 Жыл бұрын

    Man said “If we don’t take care, One day, Ghana will be in hell”. As if Ghana isn’t already in hell.

  • @fredkwabenaakoto823

    @fredkwabenaakoto823

    Жыл бұрын

    HAHAHAHAHAHAH

  • @karolinakuc4783

    @karolinakuc4783

    7 ай бұрын

    Maybe he wanted to say Ghana will be worse hell. I mean mining destroys environment

  • @KirsyReeds-yj3qj
    @KirsyReeds-yj3qj10 ай бұрын

    Africa is so Beautiful.... Thanks Family

  • @rush2112andahalf
    @rush2112andahalf Жыл бұрын

    Excellent film. Top,

  • @deville.c
    @deville.c Жыл бұрын

    Two of my favorite things gold and mercury

  • @tamadventures1969
    @tamadventures1969 Жыл бұрын

    To live on top such abundance of gold and to strive to live. 🤔

  • @VerryRichmonTV
    @VerryRichmonTV2 жыл бұрын

    Well put together.

  • @craftrecipies
    @craftrecipies22 күн бұрын

    @magnetfilm can i show this video for educational purpose in my artwork at school

  • @ppp0911
    @ppp091116 күн бұрын

    Shout out to my Galamsey brothers in Ghana.Hit me up for Business.😉

  • @pastorbrightamegazo9231
    @pastorbrightamegazo9231 Жыл бұрын

    Wow!

  • @gemaspreciosasdobrasil7809
    @gemaspreciosasdobrasil780912 күн бұрын

    Los ermanos sucesso

  • @josephkandengwa1488
    @josephkandengwa14888 ай бұрын

    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

    @josephkandengwa1488

    8 ай бұрын

    ✌🏽

  • @anwarnayani5849
    @anwarnayani5849 Жыл бұрын

    When elite do call business when poor work hard call illegal mining shame 😅 on society

  • @somsackvongsa7077

    @somsackvongsa7077

    10 ай бұрын

    Agree.all about money.

  • @randomobserver5725
    @randomobserver57252 жыл бұрын

    Excellent! It is a devil' bargain, that's for sure.

  • @bhuvanareddy8252

    @bhuvanareddy8252

    2 жыл бұрын

    Gg to

  • @MarceloClerici
    @MarceloClerici11 ай бұрын

    250 euros for a pound of gold?? maybe i should go to ghana and buy some gold there..

  • @Nut-Geb-Shu-RA-Nun
    @Nut-Geb-Shu-RA-Nun Жыл бұрын

    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

    @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

    @David-zq6ho

    9 ай бұрын

    Mercury a death sentence. ...

  • @djkush8495

    @djkush8495

    3 ай бұрын

    Glad to know I'm not the only one that feels this way.

  • @JustFiddler
    @JustFiddler Жыл бұрын

    matur suksma

  • @The3rdman741
    @The3rdman7419 ай бұрын

    Is that really pound of gold?

  • @mihalisangelos6187
    @mihalisangelos6187 Жыл бұрын

    they use the same water for eating and drinking

  • @Obresedk96
    @Obresedk96 Жыл бұрын

    😢 my land has been destroyed

  • @sonofafrica514
    @sonofafrica5148 ай бұрын

    At the end of the documentary they ate from the same river they polluted. So in essence they are killing them selves.

  • @frequencyyj7369
    @frequencyyj7369 Жыл бұрын

    The blame shouldn’t be on the Galamsey but on the foreigners looting the resources of the locals

  • @briopalumpus8676

    @briopalumpus8676

    Жыл бұрын

    with out local help foregners wount stand a chance, if locals dont welcome them they will run away

  • @ganjacat8408

    @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

    @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

    @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,

  • @OBmusic_
    @OBmusic_ Жыл бұрын

    The DCE 🤣🤣

  • @doc.georgeandersonjr539
    @doc.georgeandersonjr539 Жыл бұрын

    And none of them is putting the precious gold

  • @enjinman
    @enjinman Жыл бұрын

    Funny how gold bugs say Bitcoin is bad for the environment 😂🤦🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️

  • @karolinakuc4783
    @karolinakuc47837 ай бұрын

    And come to think Mansa Musa was the wealthiest man on Earth.

  • @DaneLapso-pv3wl
    @DaneLapso-pv3wl10 ай бұрын

    Mag aral

  • @brandonheyward8635
    @brandonheyward86352 жыл бұрын

    Africa Go back to your roots.

  • @user-dx3tk1no3y
    @user-dx3tk1no3y9 ай бұрын

    I will share this video with Michelle Obama and his husband.

  • @MPam1619
    @MPam1619 Жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @humansarepests
    @humansarepests6 ай бұрын

    All these could have been prevented by condom

  • @alandalusi8862
    @alandalusi8862 Жыл бұрын

    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

    @karolinakuc4783

    7 ай бұрын

    You migrate to Europe and do crimes.

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