Cinema as Foreign Exchange

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Cinema as Foreign Exchange (1984)

Directed by Simon Hartog

Documentary, History · 1h 01m

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.

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Cast

K
Karen Archer Narrator Stephen Chigorimbo
W
Wilson Katiyo
C
Claude Marezda
J
Jean-Claude Rahaga
J
Jeannot Rarojo
I
Ignace Solo Randrasana
B
Benoît Ramampy
S
Samuel Matola
P
Pedro Pimenta

Crew

Director
Simon Hartog
Producer
Simon Hartog

Details

Release date
1984-06-06
Runtime
1h 01m
Genres
Documentary, History
Original language
EN
Spoken languages
English, French, Portuguese
Countries
United Kingdom
Production
Channel 4 Television