Visions Cinema: Cinema as Foreign Exchange

Overview

This documentary shows how cinema has been used very differently in three neighbouring African countries with different colonial heritages: Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Madagascar. Mozambique used cinema newsreels as a crucial propaganda tool after the Portugese colonisers left. Madagascar boycotted US movies, so its screens were dominated by French, Indian and Hong Kong films instead. But a few films managed to get made. The situation in Zimbabwe was the worst, except that alone of the three countries it possessed an efficient film laboratory.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

June 6, 1984

Original language

English

Spoken languages

English, French, Portuguese

Countries

United Kingdom

Production

Channel 4 Television

Cast

Jean-Claude Rahaga,Wilson Katiyo,Jeannot Rarojo,Ignace Solo Randrasana,Pedro Pimenta,Karen Archer,Claude Marezda,Samuel Matola,Benoît Ramampy,Stephen Chigorimbo

Director

Simon Hartog

Producer

Simon Hartog

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt20412304