"Resonant and stunningly shot" - Variety

THE COCA COLA CASE

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If the consumer takes moral responsibility for the product he/she consumes, then you might want to think twice before drinking that Coke. The soft drinks giant washes its hands of the environmental damage done its name in large swathes of the Third World, and as this crusading documentary shows, it also turns a blind eye to the seemingly routine murders of trade union activists at its bottling plants in Colombia. (More than 470 workers' leaders have been assassinated in that country since 2002.)

Reminiscent of the recent petroleum documentary Crude, The Coca Cola Case follows a US legal team as it bids to hold Coke to account in US courts for human rights violations that cannot be pursued in Colombia. It also follows the grassroots 'Stop Killer Coke' campaign, including an angry showdown with free-marketeers on the campus of the University of Chicago.

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