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.

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Setting
Set in Africa
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Cinematography
Cinematography by Lennart Malmer, Ingrid Dahlberg and Per Källberg
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Details

Director: Göran Olsson
Writers: Göran OlssonWriter
Frantz FanonBook
Original title: Om våld
Status: Released
Release date: January 17, 2014
Original language: Swedish
Countries: Denmark, Finland, Sweden, United States of America

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Production

STORY

Cast

Lauryn HillNarrator in English version
Gayatri Chakravorty SpivakSelf - Professor, Columbia University
Gaetano PaganoSelf - Reporter (voice) (archive footage)
Tonderai MakoniSelf - PhD (archive footage)
Robert MugabeSelf - ZANU (archive footage)
Olle WijkströmSelf - CEO Lamco (archive footage)
William 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