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White Elephant (1984)
Directed by Werner Grusch
“An amusing and well-founded semi-documentary about the resistance of the black continent to imperialistic technocrats”
Documentary, Comedy
This film was made entirely in Ghana and consists of documentary scenes and a fictitious story about a British engineer who wants to import microchips to Africa. But the reaction of the blacks to his plans to build a fully automatic plastic furniture factory surprises him. His faith in technocracy stands opposed to what they know about the environment. When the conflict has reached its climax, a spell is cast upon him... finally, he gives up... but his attitude toward Africa has changed for the better.
Cast
Peter Firth
Crew
- Director
- Werner Grusch
- Writer
- Werner Grusch, Ashley Pharoah
- Director of Photography
- Tom Hurwitz
- Editor
- Tom Hurwitz
Details
- Release date
- 1984-01-01
- Genres
- Documentary, Comedy
- Original language
- DE
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- Ghana, Austria, United Kingdom
- Production
- Worldoc Production