Disco Boy (2023) on Netflix
Aleksei, a Belarusian, crosses Europe and joins the French Foreign Legion, hoping for a European identity. In the Niger Delta, Jomo fights for his people, ready to die for his ideas.
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- Netflix3.7/5
- IMDb6.3/102,053 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes84%
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Plot summary
Aleksei is a Belarusian who makes a painful journey through Europe. It ends in France, where he enlists in the Foreign Legion and holds on to a muddled dream of becoming European. Jomo is Nigerian, a guerrilla fighter in the Niger Delta. He fights so that his people survive and endure, and he says he is prepared to give his life for his ideas. The two stories are intertwined.
Cast
- Mutamba Kalonjias Sunday
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Disco Boy (2023)
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- Giacomo Abbruzzese said Franz Rogowski's character Aleksei was born out of a nightclub meeting with a dancer who had been a soldier, whose body showed the same dichotomy: a dancer's body and a soldier's body share discipline, choreography and exhaustion.
- Morr Ndiaye, the Gambian actor cast as the guerrilla fighter Jomo, was discovered through his appearance in the 2018 documentary film Tumaranké.
