Summary Cameroonian filmmaker Bassek ba Kobhio provides a fascinating revisionist perspective on Albert Schweitzer, Noble Peace Prize winner and secular saint of the colonial era. Like FRANTZ FANON: BLACK SKIN, WHITE MASK, this film begins to rewrite the history of colonialism from the point of view of the colonized. LE GRAND BLANC DE LAMBARÉNÉ is not, however, a facile exercise in iconoclasm but rather a deeply-felt lament for a missed opportunity, for a cross-cultural encounter between Africa and Europe which never happened. The film reveals that the ultimate tragedy of colonialism may have been its refusal to see and value the colonized as autonomous, creative human beings. The film's epigraph, ironically, is a famous remark by Schweitzer himself: "All we can do is allow others to discover us, as we discover them." View more details
Directed : Bassek Ba Kobhio
Written : Bassek Ba Kobhio Serge Lascar
Stars : Marisa Berenson André Wilms Alex Descas Elizabeth Bourgine
Genres : Drama Biography
Release date : Apr 25, 1995
Countries of origin : France Cameroon Gabon
Language : French
Production companies : Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC) Canal+ Productions Ce.Na.Ci.
Summary Cameroonian filmmaker Bassek ba Kobhio provides a fascinating revisionist perspective on Albert Schweitzer, Noble Peace Prize winner and secular saint of the colonial era. Like FRANTZ FANON: BLACK SKIN, WHITE MASK, this film begins to rewrite the history of colonialism from the point of view of the colonized. LE GRAND BLANC DE LAMBARÉNÉ is not, however, a facile exercise in iconoclasm but rather a deeply-felt lament for a missed opportunity, for a cross-cultural encounter between Africa and Europe which never happened. The film reveals that the ultimate tragedy of colonialism may have been its refusal to see and value the colonized as autonomous, creative human beings. The film's epigraph, ironically, is a famous remark by Schweitzer himself: "All we can do is allow others to discover us, as we discover them." View more details
Genres : Drama Biography
Release date : Apr 25, 1995
Countries of origin : France Cameroon Gabon
Language : French
Production companies : Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC) Canal+ Productions Ce.Na.Ci.
