As colonialism in Africa came to an end in the early 1960s, a continent of unstable nations was left tragically ill-prepared for their new-found independence. Over the next 3 years, Jacopetti and Prosperi would risk their own lives to be among the few eyewitnesses to Africa's agony. From the genocide of Zanzibar to the Watusi and Mau Mau massacres, from mercenary assaults in the Congo to industrial complicity in South African apartheid, the most savage beast on the Dark Continent emerges as man himself. What began as a mere documentary soon became a picture postcard from hell.....
vrijdag, november 2
As colonialism in Africa came to an end in the early 1960s, a continent of unstable nations was left tragically ill-prepared for their new-found independence. Over the next 3 years, Jacopetti and Prosperi would risk their own lives to be among the few eyewitnesses to Africa's agony. From the genocide of Zanzibar to the Watusi and Mau Mau massacres, from mercenary assaults in the Congo to industrial complicity in South African apartheid, the most savage beast on the Dark Continent emerges as man himself. What began as a mere documentary soon became a picture postcard from hell.....