Cinema as Foreign Exchange

Name: Cinema as Foreign Exchange
Genre: Documentary, History
Released: 1984-06-06
Duration: 61 min
Cast: Stephen Chigorimbo

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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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Stephen Chigorimbo

Cinema as Foreign Exchange

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