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Adu

2020 · 119 min · Director: Salvador Calvo ★ IMDb 6.8 · 5,848 ratings

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In the coastal autonomous city of Melilla (located in north Africa but belonging Spain), Mateo is a Civil Guard with the task to protect the barb wire which divides the city of the rest of Africa to avoid the entering of African immigrants to Spain. During a mass attempt a night, Mateo is witness about as his partner Javi hits with his club in the head to an immigrant named Tatu, falling of the barb wire to the ground and dying in the fall, causing the rage in the rest of immigrants that seen it. At the same time, in a reservation of Mbouma, Cameroon, Gonzalo is a Spaniard working as external advisor to prevent the killing of elephants by poachers, who arrives too much late to save the most important elephant of the reservation. Unaware for him, this killing causes that the child Alika and his younger brother Adu be forced to flee from their little town in Mbouma pursued by poachers, after that they were accidental witnesses of the killing. While in Melilla Mateo doubts between saying the truth about what happened or keeping silence to protect Javi, Gonzalo is fired of his job after a discussion with the reservation's guards and he moves to the airport to meet Sandra, his longtime stranded daughter (a lover of alcohol, drugs, party and wild side of life) who still continues resentful with her father after he left she and her mother when Sandra was a child, forced to move with Gonzalo after some troubles in Madrid (center to Spain and country's capital). Hoping to arrive Spain to meet with their father, Alika and Adu take a flight as stowaways hiding them in the undercarriage, but Alika dies by frozen and falls to the sea when the plane opens the undercarriage to take land, leaving alone to Adu who by mistake arrives Mauritania. While Mateo is visited by Tatu's lawyer Paloma trying to convince him to be honest in Javi's trial, Gonzalo tries to save Sandra of her self-destructive spiral of addictions to reconcile each other, and Adu is saved of the police by the teenager Massar who decides to care Adu as his new older brother for traveling Spain by offering sexually himself to truck drivers in order to earn money for finally arriving mount Gurugu, makeshift camp close to Melilla where immigrants await the right moment to pass the border, not knowing that their paths will cross with Mateo and Gonzalo in the most unexpected ways.

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Adu (2020) — Movie. Top emotional signals: Empathy 35%, Sadness 25%, Anxiety 20%. Source: AI estimate. Shares describe emotional signal, not percentages of people. Your experience may differ. How we measure

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The strongest emotional signals are Empathy, Sadness, Anxiety. Genres: Drama. AI estimate.

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  • Tension
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Dominant emotion: Tension

Dominant emotion: Empathy

Dominant emotion: Sadness

Dominant emotion: Relief

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Intensity peaks around 38 %, then dips around 48 %, then peaks around 93 %.Ending hidden

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%Approximate minuteDominant emotionOverall intensityEmpathyTensionSadness
2.5 %≈ 3′Tension80 %58 %78 %58 %
7.5 %≈ 9′Tension73 %50 %70 %51 %
12.5 %≈ 15′Tension70 %49 %69 %41 %
17.5 %≈ 21′Tension70 %55 %66 %35 %
22.5 %≈ 27′Empathy60 %53 %53 %29 %
27.5 %≈ 33′Tension60 %53 %56 %28 %
32.5 %≈ 39′Tension79 %71 %76 %46 %
37.5 %≈ 45′Sadness85 %83 %76 %66 %
42.5 %≈ 51′Empathy68 %66 %55 %54 %
47.5 %≈ 57′Empathy55 %53 %39 %35 %
52.5 %≈ 62′Empathy64 %63 %44 %43 %
57.5 %≈ 68′Empathy78 %76 %61 %58 %
62.5 %≈ 74′Empathy78 %75 %65 %59 %
67.5 %≈ 80′Empathy73 %71 %61 %57 %
72.5 %≈ 86′Empathy76 %73 %66 %60 %
77.5 %≈ 92′Tension80 %70 %71 %56 %
82.5 %≈ 98′Tension83 %71 %65 %44 %
87.5 %≈ 104′Relief88 %79 %56 %44 %
92.5 %≈ 110′Sadness92 %85 %62 %65 %
97.5 %≈ 116′Not enough subtitle evidenceNot enough subtitle evidenceNot enough subtitle evidenceNot enough subtitle evidenceNot enough subtitle evidence
Rags to riches

Rags to riches: The emotional tone rises from negative to positive.

Riches to rags: The emotional tone falls from positive to negative.

Man in a hole: The tone falls, then recovers.

Icarus: The tone rises, then falls.

Cinderella: The tone rises, falls, then rises again.

Oedipus: The tone falls, rises, then falls again.

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Cast

Luis Tosar

Gonzalo

MO
Moustapha Oumarou

Adú

AN
Adam Nourou

Massar

ZD
Zayidiyya Dissou

Alika

Ana Wagener

Paloma

NN
Nora Navas

Carmen

IS
Issaka Sawadogo

Kabila

BA
Bella Agossou

Safí

JB
Josean Bengoetxea

Comandante

EC
Eliane Chagas

Leke

KG
Koffi Gahou

Neko

BL
Belén López

Funcionaria ONU

EB
Emilio Buale

Tatu

HK
Hamid Krim

Taxista Nuakchot

MC
Marta Calvó

Abogada Mateo

TR
Tarik Rmili

Samir

Details

Directed by
Salvador Calvo
Type
Movies
Released
2020
Runtime
119 min
Country
Spain
Genres
Drama
Ratings
★ IMDb 6.8 · 5,848 ratings
Feels mostly
Empathy
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