Found in: Afrika Eye 2014
Come Back, Africa

Come Back, Africa

classified 12

Afrika Eye 2014

Film

Please note: This was screened in Nov 2014

Director
Lionel Rogosin
Cast
Vinah Makeba, Zachria Makeba, Molly Parkin, Miriam Makeba
Details
95 mins, 1959

After witnessing firsthand the terrors of fascism as a soldier in World War II, director Lionel Rogosin vowed to fight wherever and whenever he saw its threats re-emerging. In an effort to expose "what people try to avoid seeing," Rogosin travelled to apartheid-struck South Africa in 1959 and secretly filmed Come Back, Africa, which revealed the cruelty and injustice with which black South Africans were treated. A jarring view of a largely concealed environment of injustice, it honestly and sincerely captures images of the long faces of a people oppressed. Casting occurred before the script for the movie was written; the script itself was a vague sketch of plot points which the actors added to with their own dialogue, making the film a genuinely authentic representation of the living conditions of the time.

Ticket prices: £5.50 full / 4.00 concessions.


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