Afrique 50 (1950)
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Afrique 50 is a 1950 French documentary film directed by René Vautier. The first French anti-colonialist film, the film derived from an assignment in which the director was to cover educational activities by the French League of Schooling in West Africa. Vautier later filmed what he saw, a "lack of teachers and doctors, the crimes committed by the French Army in the name of France, the instrumentalization of the colonized peoples". For his role in the film Vautier was imprisoned over several months. The film was not permitted to be shown for more than 40 years. |
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Afrique 50 est le premier film anticolonialiste français. À l’origine, il s’agit d’une commande de la Ligue française de l’enseignement destinée à montrer aux élèves la mission éducative menée dans les colonies françaises d’Afrique de l’Ouest. Mais, sur place, le réalisateur, âgé de 21 ans seulement, décide de témoigner de la réalité : le manque de professeurs et de médecins, les crimes commis par l’armée française au nom du peuple français, l’instrumentalisation des populations colonisées… |
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