| Description |
1 online resource (streaming video file) (44 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound |
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digital |
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video file MPEG-4 Flash |
| Note |
Title from title frames. |
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Film |
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In Process Record. |
| Performer |
Gaston Motambo, Jan Decleir, Wilm Willaert |
| Event |
Originally produced by GKIDS Films in 2018. |
| Summary |
In the late 19th century, keen to compete with other European imperial powers on the continent, King Leopold II of Belgium proclaimed, "I do not want to miss a good chance of getting us a slice of this magnificent African cake." The subsequent occupation of the Congo would come to attract a contingent of servants, merchants and miscellaneous bourgeois driven by everything from insatiable greed to existential fear. From the intimate stories of these characters - many of whom pass through a luxury hotel in the middle of the jungle - emerges a greater narrative concerning the imperialist mentality. In a film by turns surreal, darkly comic and brutal, directors Marc James Roels and Emma de Swaef ultimately turn their critical gaze on the colonists themselves in a work of stunning, mysterious beauty. Official Selection at the **Cannes Film Festival**, **Toronto International Film Festival**, and **Telluride Film Festival**. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Language |
In Dutch |
| Subject |
Motion pictures, French.
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Comedy.
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Motion pictures.
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Short films.
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| Genre/Form |
Feature films.
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| Added Author |
De Swaef, Emma, film director.
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James Roels, Marc, film director.
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Motambo, Gaston, actor.
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Decleir, Jan, actor.
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Willaert, Wilm, actor.
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GKIDS Films (Firm),. Distributor.
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Kanopy (Firm) Distributor.
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| Music No. |
7440425 Kanopy |
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