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Come Back, Africa is a 1959 film, the second feature-length film written, produced, and directed by American independent filmmaker Lionel Rogosin. The film had a profound effect on African cinema, and remains historically and cultural importance as a document preserving the heritage of the townships in South Africa in the 1950s.
Come Back, Africa: Directed by Lionel Rogosin. With Zacharia Mgabi, Vinah Bendile, Miriam Makeba, Lewis Nkosi. Come Back, Africa chronicles the life of Zachariah, a black South African living under the rule of the harsh apartheid government in 1959.
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- Documentary, Drama
- Lionel Rogosin
- 1960-01-20
Currently you are able to watch "Come Back, Africa" streaming on Criterion Channel, OVID, Kino Film Collection. It is also possible to buy "Come Back, Africa" on Amazon Video as download or rent it on Amazon Video online.
- Lionel Rogosin
- 11
- Molly Parkin
- 95 min
In 1959, somehow, an American filmmaker named Lionel Rogosin managed to film a movie in South Africa titled Come Back, Africa. The purpose of the movie is to illustrate to American...
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- Zacharia Mgabi
- Lionel Rogosin
- Lionel Rogosin Films
One of the bravest and most powerful political films ever made, Lionel Rogosin’s urgent indictment of racial injustice—filmed in secret in 1950s Johannesburg, South Africa—follows a young Zulu man’s struggles to provide for his family under the crushing burden of apartheid.
Milestone Films presents Lionel Rogosin’s 1959 secretly filmed Come Back Africa, a historical wonder and an honest glimpse into the harsh reality of life under the now-abolished South African apartheid government.