The read
It runs a compact 1h 25m.
Synopsis
Based on powerful archival material documenting the most daring moments in the struggle for liberation in the Third World, this documentary is accompanied by classic text from The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon.
Ratings
IMDb7.5/10
Rotten Tomatoes90%
Metacritic80/100
19 audience votes
Key crew
- Göran OlssonDirector
- Göran OlssonWriter
- Neo MuyangaOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Lauryn HillNarrator in English version
- Gayatri Chakravorty SpivakSelf - Professor, Columbia University
- Gaetano PaganoSelf - Reporter (voice) (archive footage)
- Tonderai MakoniSelf - PhD (archive footage)
- Robert MugabeSelf - ZANU (archive footage)
- Olle WijkströmSelf - CEO Lamco (archive footage)
- William TubmanSelf - President of Liberia (archive footage)
- Amílcar CabralSelf - Leader of PAIGC, Guinea-Bissau (archive footage)
- Thomas SankaraSelf - President of Burkina Faso (archive footage)
- António de SpínolaSelf - Military Governor of Guinea-Bissau (Archive Footage)
- Kati OutinenNarrator in Finnish version
Stills
Themes
capitalismresistanceglobalization1970sthird worldsettlerapartheidnorth atlantic treaty organization (nato)colonisationracismtorturecolonialism