The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind

2019

Action / Biography / Drama / History

68
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 86% · 66 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 88% · 500 ratings
IMDb Rating 7.6/10 10 53532 53.5K

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Plot summary

Against all the odds, a thirteen year old boy in Malawi invents an unconventional way to save his family and village from famine.

Director

Chiwetel Ejiofor Photo
Chiwetel Ejiofor

Top cast

Chiwetel Ejiofor Photo
Chiwetel Ejiofor as Trywell Kamkwamba
Aïssa Maïga Photo
Aïssa Maïga as Agnes Kamkwamba
Lemogang Tsipa Photo
Lemogang Tsipa as Mike Kachigunda
Joseph Marcell Photo
Joseph Marcell as Chief Wembe
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972.57 MB
1280*534
English 2.0
TV-PG
Subtitles
24 fps
1 hr 53 min
Seeds 25
1.83 GB
1920*800
English 2.0
TV-PG
Subtitles
24 fps
1 hr 53 min
Seeds 77

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by CinemaSerf 7 / 10

This is a great looking film depicting the

This is a great looking film depicting the abject poverty, despite their best efforts, of a subsistence farming community in Malawi. The cinematography is glorious as we follow the Kamkwamba family's struggles to educate their children and feed themselves at the same time - in the face of some pretty brutal government corruption and a severe drought. Son "William" (Maxwell Simba) is thirteen, and he has more than an average degree of nouse to him - he concludes, after studying a few engineering books in his school's library - that by cannibalising an old bike and an old ghetto-blaster, he can create a turbine mechanism that could be used to generate electrical power to pump water and help them to improve their harvest, and their lives... Chiwitel Ejiofor is his rather sceptical father, struggling under the pressures of keeping his family alive and the two have quite a forceful battle of wills as the young man attempts to convince his father that sacrificing the family's only mode of transport is a risk worth taking! I found the establishing parts of the story a bit too slow; once I understood the extent of their predicament and what the young man was trying to do, I was itching for him to succeed - and the behaviour of the father I found irritating and incongruous, slightly, with a man so keen on educating his family. That said, once it starts to focus on the project, I was astonished by the ingenuity of "William" and his young student friends as they materially change the lives of their famines for ever. It's a good film this - a try triumph of optimism over experience that I largely enjoyed watching.
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Reviewed by kitcatch 8 / 10

Such a beautiful and powerful film

Chiwetel Ejiofor knew exactly what he was going for with this film. You knew there was a happy ending to this and it still beats you into an emotional pulp by the end. Terrific performances across the board, with an absolute gem from young Maxwell Simba. There are so many scenes in this that are powerful, heartbreaking, beautiful, and in one case, terrifying, that by the end you will be so invested and a little saddened that you can't help but be overjoyed when the predictable happiness finally arrives.

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