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African Mirror

Original title: African Mirror
Year: 2019
Running time: 84 min.
Country: Switzerland
Director: Mischa Hedinger
Cast: Documentary
Producer: SRG, Ton-und-Bild. Distributor: Ton-und-Bild
Genre: Documentary | Colonialism. Africa
Synopsis: In Switzerland, a country without its own colonies, travel writer, photographer, filmmaker and public speaker René Gardi (1909–2000) shaped a whole generation’s image of Africa. Using Gardi’s extensive stock of footage, mainly of Cameroon, and recordings as well as texts from his unpublished diaries, Mischa Hedinger constructs a film essay using only archive material, which seeks less to create a portrait of an adventurer than to carry out a work of cinematographic field research.

Awards: 2019: Swiss Film Awards: Nominated for Best Documentary

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African Mirror

2019

Mischa Hedinger