Cinema as Foreign Exchange
1984, English. Directed by Simon Hartog.
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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- 6 June 1984
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Cinema as Foreign Exchange (1984) was directed by Simon Hartog and stars Karen Archer, Stephen Chigorimbo, Wilson Katiyo.