Cinema as Foreign Exchange

Cinema as Foreign Exchange — Plot

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.

• Release date
• June 6, 1984
• Runtime
• 61 min
• Genres
• Documentary, History
• Director
• Simon Hartog

Cinema as Foreign Exchange — 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