David Dontoh

David Dontoh

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Lagos to Oslo
Title: Lagos to Oslo
Character: Professor Obiora
Released: November 27, 2020
Type: Movie
Aaron is academically gifted, loved, loving and free. Struggling financially to remain in university education, he is introduced to a mysteriously wealthy man who promises him the world. What Aaron gets instead is isolation, confusion and vilification.
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Title: Snowfall
Character: Likem
Released: July 5, 2017
Type: TV
Los Angeles. 1983. A storm is coming and its name is crack. Set against the infancy of the crack cocaine epidemic and its ultimate radical impact on the culture as we know it, the story follows numerous characters on a violent collision course.
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Like Cotton Twines
Title: Like Cotton Twines
Character: Father Baani
Released: June 1, 2016
Type: Movie
An American volunteer teaching in a school in Africa must save one of his students, a 14 year old girl from religious slavery.
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The Cursed Ones
Title: The Cursed Ones
Released: November 6, 2015
Type: Movie
The Cursed Ones tells the story of a disillusioned reporter and an idealistic young pastor, who fight to free a girl accused of witchcraft from the clutches of a system of corruption and superstition in the heart of West Africa.
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Beasts of No Nation
Title: Beasts of No Nation
Released: September 11, 2015
Type: Movie
Based on the experiences of Agu, a child fighting in the civil war of an unnamed, fictional West African country. Follows Agu's journey as he's forced to join a group of soldiers. While he fears his commander and many of the men around him, his fledgling childhood has been brutally shattered by the war raging through his country, and he is at first torn between conflicting revulsion and fascination.
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Chronicles of Odumkrom: The Headmaster
Title: Chronicles of Odumkrom: The Headmaster
Released: September 10, 2015
Type: Movie
What price must a man pay to provide education? What sacrifice must a man make to bring enlightenment to his community when the people he fights for are bent on continuing with their way of life?
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Ties That Bind
Title: Ties That Bind
Character: Koo
Released: December 3, 2011
Type: Movie
Adobea, Buki and Theresa are three women from different walks of life bound together by a similar pain; the loss of a child. In a destined meeting in a small village in Kroboland, the women journey together to redemption, love, life and forgiveness as they renovate a dilapidated clinic for the villagers.
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Somewhere in Africa
Title: Somewhere in Africa
Character: President Gabiza
Released: July 30, 2011
Type: Movie
In a town where blood thirsty militant subject making life simply unbearable, it is difficult to know when you will wake up to a brilliant morning sunshine which promises a day of solemnity. In the wake of the seeming normalcy of a capricious life, a new regime is established in Kimbala town: a superlative regime of Yusuf Mombasa. Thirstier and fiercer than his predecessors, the people of Kimbala are dumb by his ruthlessness. The strongest of men are hit down to noting more than murmur. The influential are coiled in their shells in total stillness and the civilians hide behind hypocritical facet of patriotism. Who will dare stop Mombasa? ( Chris Twum )
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The Dead
Title: The Dead
Character: The Chief
Released: August 30, 2010
Type: Movie
When the last evacuation flight out of war-torn Africa crashes off the coast, American Air Force Engineer Lieutenant Brian Murphy emerges as the sole survivor in a land where the dead are returning to life and attacking the living.
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Warrior Queen
Title: Warrior Queen
Released: April 1, 2009
Type: Movie
Tells the true story of an African Queen named Nana Yaa Asantewaa and the events that led her to rise up in arms against the British in the early 1900's.
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No Time to Die
Title: No Time to Die
Character: Asante
Released: November 11, 2006
Type: Movie
Asante, a hearse driver in Ghana, wants a wife. His profession puts most women off. He falls in love with a client whose mother has died, and manages to win her over. But her father forbids marriage to a hearse driver. Asante persists and becomes the first hearse driver in Accra to get married.
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Welcome Home
Title: Welcome Home
Released: November 10, 2004
Type: Movie
Another one of those stories we hear almost every day: refugees are picked up on Austria's border after a dramatic chase. And then nothing more is heard of them. The problem is apparently resolved in the usual way, through incarceration and deportation. But it's different this time: the story continues in Ghana, where everything is suddenly turned upside down.
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See You, Amsterdam
Title: See You, Amsterdam
Released: November 19, 2003
Type: Movie
A Ghanaian woman, Nana Ama, finds out at airport Schiphol that her papers are false. Her dream to start a new life in the United States falls apart. After escaping the authorities, she tries to earn a living in the Bijlmer in Amsterdam.
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Deadly Voyage
Title: Deadly Voyage
Released: June 14, 1996
Type: Movie
When stowaways are found on board a Russian cargo ship, some of the officers and crew decide to dispose of them at sea. The last time they had a stowaway on board, the ship was fined heavily and black marks entered into their records, when he made it off the ship into a foreign port.
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Harvest at 17
Title: Harvest at 17
Released: January 10, 1992
Type: Movie
This is a story of two teenage love birds, who defied parental counsel and chose to live their lives as they saw fit. It is a story of youthful exuberance and experimentation with adult lifestyle between young people that ends them in trouble.
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Aya Minnow
Title: Aya Minnow
Character: Koby
Released: January 1, 1992
Type: Movie
The tragic story of a father who wants a "good" man for his daughter who is bent on having her own way and the house boy caught in between.
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Sika Sunsum
Title: Sika Sunsum
Released: January 1, 1991
Type: Movie
Agya Ntow introduces his wife, Rose, to Jimmy Cash as his niece for financial consideration. Soon, Jimmy starts dating Rose which causes a rift between Agya Ntow and Rose.
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Heritage Africa
Title: Heritage Africa
Character: Kpakpo Allotey
Released: January 2, 1989
Type: Movie
The story of Quincy Bosomfield who is the product of colonial education and has risen to become the district commissioner. In the process, he abandons his African heritage and all that has real meaning to him.
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Kukurantumi
Title: Kukurantumi
Character: Bob
Released: January 2, 1983
Type: Movie
Addey is a lorry driver and an industrious family man who makes ends meet by plying his trade between Accra, the capital city, and his village , Kukurantumi. When he loses his job for reasons beyond his control, he plots a marriage between his daughter, Abena, and an affluent businessman but she refuses the union because she loved another. Abena disobeys her father Addey and, with Bob, the poor young man she loves, elopes to Accra where things worsen.