Afrique 50
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Afrique 50 | |
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Directed by | René Vautier |
Produced by | Ligue française de l’Enseignement |
Screenplay by | René Vautier |
Music by | Keita Fodela |
Cinematography | René Vautier |
Edited by | René Vautier |
Release dates
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1950 |
Running time
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17 minutes |
Country | France |
Afrique 50 is a 1956 French documentary film directed by René Vautier. The first French anti-colonialist film, the film derived from an assignment in which the director was to cover educational activities by the French League of Schooling in West Africa. Vautier later filmed what he saw, a "lack of teachers and doctors, the crimes committed by the French Army in the name of France, the instrumentalization of the colonized peoples". For his role in the film Vautier was imprisoned over several months. The film was not permitted to be shown for more than 40 years.
References[edit]
- African Film Festival of Cordoba-FCAT (license CC BY-SA)
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