Come Back, Africa

Credits

Name: Come Back, Africa

Country: Südafrika; USA

Year of publication: 1959

Format: 35 mm

Color: b/w

Language : OF m. engl. UT

Duration: 89 Minuten

Direction: Rogosin, Lionel

Screenplay: Modisane, Bloke; Rogosin, Lionel

Camera: Artaria, Ernest; Knebel, Emil

Editing: Lerner, Carl

Sound: Wettler, Walter

Actor: Mgabi, Zacharia; Makeba, Vinah; Makeba, Miriam; Nkosi, Lewis

Abstract

Zacharia a young Zulu leaves his kin to find work in the goldmines of Johannesburg. Because of invalid papers Zacharia has to pick up odd jobs. He is ridiculed, insulted and ostracised by his white superintendents. Also his wife Vinah is forced to take up domestic service and is exposed to same conditions. The sense of torment, helplessness, and frustration is intended to capture the resentments of South Africa’s indigenous population. With Come Back, Africa Lionel revealed the harsh injustice of apartheid. He portrayed honestly and accurately the life of the people in the ghetto Sophiatown. 2004 director Lionel Rogosin published a book about the most difficult circumstances under which this film was produced.

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