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The Mauritanian (2021)

★ 7.4 · 1,278 ratings on TMDB
The Mauritanian poster★ 7.4

The true story of the Mauritanian Mohamedou Ould Slahi, who was held at the U.S military's Guantanamo Bay detention center without charges for over a decade and sought help from a defense attorney for his release.

DirectorKevin Macdonald
CastBenedict Cumberbatch, Corey Johnson, David Fynn, Jodie Foster, Langley Kirkwood, Matthew Marsh
GenresDrama, Thriller
The emergence reading

The Mauritanian keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same rung, same subject

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Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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