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Fogo, Fire Island

Original title: Fogo, l'île de feu
Year: 1979
Running time: 32 min.
Country: Cape Verde
Director: Sarah Maldoror
Cast: Documentary
Genre: Documentary | Half-length Film. Africa
Synopsis: In this documentary about Cape Verde and the island of Fogo produced by the revolutionary government of the new country, Sarah Maldoror returns to the anthropological vision of documentaries like Las Hurdes or Jean Rouch's ethnographic documentaries, but unlike these, there is neither exoticism nor paternalism in the extreme hardships in this land of adverse conditions, instead a culture learning to live without tutelage.

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Fogo, Fire Island

1979

Sarah Maldoror