Director:

• Neill Blomkamp
• Peter Robert Gerber (director: documentary unit)
• Simon Hansen (director: interviews unit)

Writers:

• Neill Blomkamp (written by)
• Terri Tatchell (written by)

Country: USA | New Zealand
Release Date:

• USA – 14 August 2009
• Germany – 10 September 2009

Genre: Action | Sci-Fi | Thriller
ImDB: 8.3/10; ImDB Link

Plot
In 1982, a massive star ship bearing a bedraggled alien population, nicknamed “The Prawns,” appeared over Johannesburg, South Africa. Twenty-eight years later, the initial welcome by the human population has faded. The refugee camp where the aliens were located has deteriorated into a militarized ghetto called District 9, where they are confined and exploited in squalor. In 2010, the munitions corporation, Multi-National United, is contracted to forcibly evict the population with operative Wikus van der Merwe in charge. In this operation, Wikus is exposed to a strange alien chemical and must rely on the help of his only two new ‘Prawn’ friends.