Tropical diseases: Malaria

Original title: Mary and Martha. Country: UK and USA. Year: 2013. Director: Phillip Noyce. Music: Philip Miller. Photography: Roberto De Angelis. Film editor: Martin Nicholson. Screenwriter: Richard Curtis. Cast: Hilary Swank, Brenda Blethyn, Sam Claflin, Frank Grillo, Lux Haney-Jardine, Bongo Mbutuma, Ian Redford, James Woods, Nokuthula Ledwaba, Sifiso Sihlangu, Kagiso Lediga, Zethu Dlomo, Katleho Ramaphakela, Beatrice Miller,... Color: Color. Rumtime: 90 minutes. Genre: Drama. Language: English and French. Productions Companies: Working Title Television, HBO Films, NBC Universal Television, British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Working Title Television Production (WTTV). Synopsis: After their children died from malaria in Mozambique, two women, Mary and Martha, join forces to promote the fight against this disease. “...if you take every single person killed in a terrorist act around the world in the last 20 years and you add to that all the lives lost in the Middle East since 1967, the Six Day War, and you add to that every single American life lost in Vietnam, in Korea, and in every single American engagement since then...Iraq, Afghanistan...if you take all those lives and you multiply it by two, that's the number of children that die of malaria every single year”. Links: Mary and Martha (2013). Avalaible from: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2284766