Cinema as Foreign Exchange

Cinema as Foreign Exchange (1984)

DocumentaryHistory

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.

Director: Simon Hartog

Casts

	Karen Archer as Narrator
	Stephen Chigorimbo as
	Wilson Katiyo as
	Claude Marezda as
	Jean-Claude Rahaga as
	Jeannot Rarojo as
	Ignace Solo Randrasana as
	Benoît Ramampy as
	Samuel Matola as
	Pedro Pimenta as

Crew