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Simon Bright
2011 - 80 min - HD - Couleur et Noir & Blanc - France, Afrique du Sud, Allemagne, Australie, Royaume-Uni
"Robert Mugabe… what happened?" charts the Shakespearean rise and fall of the man who led a very successful African country, and then ruined it. Mugabe was damned as a terrorist, then knighted by Queen Elizabeth II, and is still in power more than 30 years later.
The film explores what happened through interviews with some of his closest comrades. It assembles a unique collection of Southern African archives to powerfully evoke each of the decades of Mugabe's reign. This is a complex and compelling view of Zimbabwe the country and Mugabe the man.
Author-Director : Simon Bright
Photography : Nicolaas Hofmeyr, Esko Metsola
Sound : Mzi Didza, Nami Mhlongo
Editing : Ronelle Loots, Joël Jacovella
Delegate Producer : Zimmedia
Co-producer : Acrobates films
Co-producer : Spier Films
Co-producer : Uhuru Productions, The Waterfront Union of Australia
Broadcasting Co-producer : ZDF/ARTE
Contribution : Fonds Sud cinéma