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Fig Trees was released in 2009.

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Fig Trees has a runtime of 1 hour and 40 minutes (100 minutes total).

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Fig Trees has a mixed reviews rating of 5.0/10 on TMDB.

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Fig Trees was directed by John Greyson.

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Fig Trees stars Van Abrahams, Zackie Achmat, Stephen Chen, Ezra Perlman, Ashton Williams and 5 other cast members.

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Fig Trees is a Documentary, Music film released in 2009.

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Fig Trees

Name: Fig Trees
Director: John Greyson
Genre: Documentary, Music
Released: 2009-01-01
Duration: 100 min
Rating: 5
Cast: Van Abrahams, Zackie Achmat, Stephen Chen, Ezra Perlman, Ashton Williams

5/10

2009

1h 40m

Documentary Music

FIG TREES is a documentary opera about AIDS activists Tim McCaskell of Toronto and Zackie Achmat of Capetown as they fight for access to treatment drugs. Documentary interviews, speeches, press conferences and demonstrations are sampled, taken apart, and set to music, replayed this time as operatic scenes. A surreal fictional narrative is intercut with the stories of their struggles against government and the pharmaceutical industry. In this fictional world, Gertrude Stein decides to write a tragic opera about Tim and Zackie and their saint-like heroism. She kidnaps them, transports them to Niagara Falls, and forces them to sing a series of complicated avant-garde vocal compositions. However, when Zackie ends his treatment strike and starts taking his pills, Gertrude realizes that there will be no more tragedy, and thus, no more opera.