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  • 2008
  • Unrated
  • Balcony Releasing
  • 1 h 12 m
  • 2008
  • Unrated
  • Balcony Releasing
  • 1 h 12 m

Summary Pray the Devil Back to Hell is the extraordinary story of a small band of Liberian women who came together in the midst of a bloody civil war, took on the violent warlords and corrupt Charles Taylor regime, and won a long-awaited peace for their shattered country in 2003. As the rebel noose tightened upon Monrovia, and peace talks faced ...

Directed By: Gini Reticker

  • 2008
  • Unrated
  • Balcony Releasing
  • 1 h 12 m
  • 2008
  • Unrated
  • Balcony Releasing
  • 1 h 12 m

Pray the Devil Back to Hell

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 15 Critic Reviews
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Summary Pray the Devil Back to Hell is the extraordinary story of a small band of Liberian women who came together in the midst of a bloody civil war, took on the violent warlords and corrupt Charles Taylor regime, and won a long-awaited peace for their shattered country in 2003. As the rebel noose tightened upon Monrovia, and peace talks faced ...

Directed By: Gini Reticker

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This illuminating film by director Gini Reticker and producer Abigail Disney is a much-needed attempt to put the spotlight on a moment of history that still inspires, especially because that moment led to Taylor's exile and to Liberia's election of Africa's first female head of state.
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Pray the Devil Back to Hell is at once inspiring and horrific.
By Steven Rea FULL REVIEW
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One of the truly heartening international political stories of recent years.
By Kenneth Turan FULL REVIEW
80
Without their guns, the men prove surprisingly helpless. And when a representative of a larger pan-African community tells them that if they want the women to stop treating them like children, they must behave responsibly, you sense a corner has been turned.
By Bob Mondello FULL REVIEW
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The longer the film goes on, the more you crave a vaster history of modern Liberia, originally a colony founded by former slaves from the United States.
By Wesley Morris FULL REVIEW
70
"Peace is a process, not an event," one unnamed activist says toward the end. Amen, sister.
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Reticker offers perhaps a too-narrow focus on this historical moment, but Pray the Devil remembers the golden rule of moviemaking--rather than tell, it shows, and what it shows is quietly affecting.
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Production Company Fork Films
Release Date Nov 7, 2008
Duration 1 h 12 m
Rating Unrated
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Website http://www.praythedevilbacktohell.com/
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Awards

International Documentary Association
• 2 Nominations
Alliance of Women Film Journalists
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Tribeca Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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