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. |
