Concerning Violence

Jan 17, 2014

1h 25m

★ 7.0

Overview

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.

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

STORY

Louverture Films

Final Cut for Real

Helsinki-filmi

SVT

Concerning Violence Trailers

Cast

Narrator in English version

Lauryn Hill

Self - Professor, Columbia University

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Self - Reporter (voice) (archive footage)

Gaetano Pagano

Self - PhD (archive footage)

Tonderai Makoni

Self - ZANU (archive footage)

Robert Mugabe

Self - CEO Lamco (archive footage)

Olle Wijkström

Self - President of Liberia (archive footage)

William Tubman

Self - Leader of PAIGC, Guinea-Bissau (archive footage)

Amílcar Cabral

Self - President of Burkina Faso (archive footage)

Thomas Sankara

Self - Military Governor of Guinea-Bissau (Archive Footage)

António de Spínola

Narrator in Finnish version

Kati Outinen

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6.8

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5.7

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8.3

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0.0

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0.0

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9.0

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0.0

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0.0

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0.0

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6.4

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6.9

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7.2

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0.0

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