Movie· 2009· 1h 40m
Fig Trees
★5.0IMDbDocumentaryMusic
Fig Trees is not currently streaming on any Indian OTT platform, and is not available to rent or buy in India.
- Director:
- John Greyson
Fig Trees is a 2009 English documentary film directed by John Greyson. It runs 100 minutes. The cast is led by Van Abrahams, Zackie Achmat and Stephen Chen. It holds an IMDb rating of 5.0.
Synopsis
FIG TREES is a documentary opera about AIDS activists Tim McCaskell of Toronto and Zackie Achmat of Capetown as they fight for access to treatment drugs. Documentary interviews, speeches, press conferences and demonstrations are sampled, taken apart, and set to music, replayed this time as operatic scenes. A surreal fictional narrative is intercut with the stories of their struggles against government and the pharmaceutical industry. In this fictional world, Gertrude Stein decides to write a tragic opera about Tim and Zackie and their saint-like heroism. She kidnaps them, transports them to Niagara Falls, and forces them to sing a series of complicated avant-garde vocal compositions. However, when Zackie ends his treatment strike and starts taking his pills, Gertrude realizes that there will be no more tragedy, and thus, no more opera.
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- When did Fig Trees release?
- Fig Trees released on 9 February 2009.