Summary
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.
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- Friends night
- Thought-provoking
- Adults
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At a glance
Critics vs audiences
Critics like it more than audiences (+11)
Critics 85Audiences 74GoodWatch 70
Tomatometer90%
Metascore80
IMDb7.5
Audience score72%
Running time
1 h 25 min
Shorter than most documentaries, −11 min on the typical 96
typical 9685Half of all documentaries run 89–107 min.
Reach
Streams in 4 countries, rent or buy in 9 more
Released
2014
January 17, 2014
12 years ago
Genre
DocumentaryLanguage
Swedish
Original language
Also spoken
FrenchEnglishPortugueseMade in
Denmark
Finland- Sweden
- United States
Rated
No age rating yet.
What's in it
- ViolenceModerate
- Gore, disturbing imagesLittle or none
- Frightening scenesLittle or none
- Sex, nudityLittle or none
- Dark themesStrong
In white: what the content advisories name. Levels from the title analysis.
Viewing guide
AdultsFriends NightPublic Viewing SafeSolo WatchThought-ProvokingNot listed for kids or family movie night.
and 3 more11 people
- Lauryn HillNarrator in English version
- GCGayatri Chakravorty SpivakSelf - Professor, Columbia University
- GPGaetano PaganoSelf - Reporter (voice) (archive footage)
- TMTonderai MakoniSelf - PhD (archive footage)
- Robert MugabeSelf - ZANU (archive footage)
- OWOlle WijkströmSelf - CEO Lamco (archive footage)
- WTWilliam 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
Directing · 1
- Göran Olsson Director, Writer, Editor
Writing · 1
- Frantz Fanon Book
Production · 20
- Annika Sucksdorff Executive Producer
- Aleksi Bardy Executive Producer
- Tobias Janson Producer
- Annika Rogell Producer
- Danny Glover Co-Producer
- Joslyn Barnes Co-Producer
Editing · 4
- Michael Aaglund Editor
- Sophie Vuković Editor
- Dino Jonsäter Editor
- Anders V. Christensen Color Grading
Sound · 5
- Neo Muyanga Original Music Composer
- Micke Nyström Sound Designer, Sound Re-Recording Mixer
- Lotta Westermarck Foley Artist
- Tammy Douglas Location Sound Recordist
- Peter Nordström Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Art · 2
- Emma Olanders Assistant Art Director
- Stefania Malmsten Art Direction
Other crew · 3
- Dan Israel Thanks
- Iddo Arad Legal Services
- Mireille Fanon-Mendes-France Thanks
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