29th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival

24. 10.–2. 11. 2025
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Gari-gari (Calling of the African Wilderness)

Bedřich Machulka, Hugo Adolf Bernatzik / Czech Republic / 1928 / 83 min.


synopsis

A film from the expedition of the Austrian anthropologist Hugo Adolf Bernatzik and the Czech explorer Bedřich Machulka examines the life cycle of a man from a Sudanese tribe. One of the first surviving Czechoslovak films about Africa.


more about film

director: Bedřich Machulka, Hugo Adolf Bernatzik
photography: Bedřich Machulka

contact

National Film Archive
Lukáš Hanzal
lukas.hanzal@nfa.cz

Film at festival

festival edition:2020
section:Into History: Expedition Colony

Info

director:Bedřich Machulka, Hugo Adolf Bernatzik
original title:Gari-gari (Volání africké pustiny)
country:Czech Republic
year:1928
running time:83 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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