Cast and Crew of 438 Days

Cast of
438 Days

About 438 Days

On the eve of June 28th, 2011 Swedish journalists Martin Schibbye and Johan Persson put everything at stake by illegally crossing the border from Somalia into Ethiopia. After months of research, planning and failed attempts, they were finally on their way to report on how the ruthless hunt for oil effected the population of the isolated and conflict-ridden Ogaden region. Five days later they lay wounded in the desert sand, shot and captured by the Ethiopian army. But when their initial reportage died, another story began. A story about lawlessness, propaganda and global politics. After a Kafkaesque trial they were sentenced to eleven years in prison for terrorism. And they were far from alone. Their cellmates were journalists, writers and politicians persecuted for not bowing down to dictatorship. Their reportage about oil was transformed into a story about ink, and their daily lives turned into a fight for survival inside the notorious Kality prison in Addis Ababa.

Full Cast of 438 Days

Gustaf Skarsgård
plays Martin Schibbye

Gustaf Skarsgård as Martin Schibbye

Gustaf Skarsgård (born 12 November 1980) is a Swedish film and television actor, best known for playing Floki on Hist...

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Matias Varela
plays Johan Persson

Fredrik Evers
plays Jens Odlander

Josefin Neldén
plays Linnéa Schibbye

Philip Zandén
plays Carl Bildt

Faysal Ahmed
plays Abdullahi Hussein

Jesper Ganslandt
plays Fredrik Spik

Mohamed Kalif Barre
plays Mohammed

Abdi Delgo
plays Ali

Sidow Farah Abdi
plays ONLF representative

Amina Mohamed Omar
plays Sara

Lena B. Nilsson
plays Karin Schibbye


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