28th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival

25. 10.–3. 11. 2024
ČeštinaEnglish
African Apocalypseplay
African Apocalypse
African Apocalypse
African Apocalypse
African Apocalypse
African Apocalypse

African Apocalypse

Rob Lemkin / United Kingdom / 2020 / Czech Premiere / 88 min.


synopsis

Even though Joseph Conrad’s legendary novella Heart of Darkness is admitted fiction, it is nothing short of reality. A British university student of Nigerian origin sets out to retrace Captain Voulet’s deadly military mission to the area of today’s Niger. At the time when Conrad’s gloomy literary vision of a white man falling victim to his megalomaniac frenzy deep in the backwoods of Africa was issued as a magazine serial story, the colonial ambitions of his country led a French officer to wreak havoc in the heart of the black continent, the consequences of which the local population is facing until this day. 


"We wanted to find a universal way into the subject of Colonial history and the idea that it continues until now." (Rob Lemkin)

biography

Rob Lemkin is a British filmmaker and independent documentarist. He has produced and directed over 50 documentaries and programmes for BBC, Channel 4, or ITV. In the Czech Republic, he is known for his documentary Enemies of the People (2009) exposing the terrible consequences of the Khmer Rouge rule.

more about film

director: Rob Lemkin
producer: Rob Lemkin, Geoff Arbourne, David Upshal
script: Rob Lemkin, Femi Nylander
photography: Claude Garnier, Shaun Harley Lee
editing: David Charap
sound: Abdoulaye Adamou Mato, Freya Clarke
co-producer: Elhadj Magori Sani, Jolijn Geels
executive producer: Mark Bell, Lisa Marie Russo
skladatel: Tunde Jegede, Sunara Begum

Film at festival

premiere type:Czech Premiere
festival edition:2021
section:Testimonies
language:Hausa, French, English
subtitles:Czech, English

Info

director:Rob Lemkin
original title:African Apocalypse
country:United Kingdom
year:2020
running time:88 min.

Festival partners

Ministerstvo kultury
Fond kinematografie
Město Jihlava
Kraj Vysočina
Creative Europe Media
GEMO
Česká televize
Český rozhlas
Aktuálně.cz
Respekt
Dafilms

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