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Concerning Violence
Overview
Based on powerful archival material documenting the most daring moments in the struggle for liberation in the Third World, this documentary is accompanied by classic text from The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon.
Director and cast
- Göran Olsson Director
- Lauryn Hill as Narrator in English version
- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak as Self - Professor, Columbia University
- Gaetano Pagano as Self - Reporter (voice) (archive footage)
- Tonderai Makoni as Self - PhD (archive footage)
- Robert Mugabe as Self - ZANU (archive footage)
- Olle Wijkström as Self - CEO Lamco (archive footage)
- William Tubman as Self - President of Liberia (archive footage)
- Amílcar Cabral as Self - Leader of PAIGC, Guinea-Bissau (archive footage)
- Thomas Sankara as Self - President of Burkina Faso (archive footage)
- António de Spínola as Self - Military Governor of Guinea-Bissau (Archive Footage)
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