Cinema as Foreign Exchange
- Originální název: Cinema as Foreign Exchange
- Žánr: Dokumentární, Historický
- Režie: Simon Hartog
- Hrají: Wilson Katiyo, Claude Marezda, Benoît Ramampy, Karen Archer, Samuel Matola, Ignace Solo Randrasana, Jeannot Rarojo, Pedro Pimenta, Jean-Claude Rahaga, Stephen Chigorimbo , další...
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.
