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Screening of "Come back Africa" by Lionel Rogosin
at the NatFilm Festival
When: 01 April, 2005
Where: Cinemateque, Copenhagen, Denmark
What: Announcement
1994-2004: ten years after the end of Apartheid in South Africa, Fabrica celebrates tolerance as a necessary value for the civilized development of peoples by collaborating on the restoration of the feature film "Come Back Africa" by Lionel Rogosin (South Africa, 1959).
The film
Zachariah is a poor Zulù who moves to Johannesburg to find work so he can support his family. The city offers him various jobs, all marked by rampant racism: going down a mine, he adapts to being a servant for a white family, then he works in a garage and a restaurant. In his spare time Zachariah goes to taverns for blacks with his friends. In those places illegal alcohol flows and there is much heated discussion about racial segregation. His wife and son join him in Sophiatown township, but hope soon gives way to tragedy: while Zachariah is detained by the police, a colored thug, even poorer than him, breaks into his squalid hut and kills his wife.
Venice 2004, Special Event, Venice Horizons
Screenings:
April 3 and 10
Cinemateque, Copenhagen
http://www.natfilm.dk
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