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Sankofa
Drama - 1993
Sankofa
7.1
83%
N/A
On a photo shoot in Ghana, an American model slips back in time, becomes enslaved on a plantation and bears witness to the agony of her ancestral past.
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Details

Rated:
N/A
Runtime:
124 min
Release date:
28 May 1993
Country:
BF, DE, GH, GB, US
Languages:
English
Budget:
$1,000,000
Revenue:
$2,691,899
Awards:
1 nomination.

Top Critics Reviews

fresh:
The Ethiopian-born Gerima... has brought a distinctive style and an often raw but always authoritative command of his medium to confront the horrors of slavery and its persisting significance, perhaps as no other filmmaker has.
– Kevin Thomas,
Los Angeles Times,
14 Feb 2001
fresh:
The exciting thing about Haile Gerima's lush, wide-screen folkloric feature about black slavery is its poetic conviction, backed up by a great deal of filmmaking savvy.
– Jonathan Rosenbaum,
Chicago Reader,
16 Oct 2001
fresh:
[Gerima's] film is ambitious in its depiction of slavery and accomplished in its visual command, from the bright red scarves of the rebellious slaves to a fire they set in the fields.
– Caryn James,
New York Times,
20 May 2003
rotten:
While there's no doubting the sincerity of writer/director Gerima's film, one can't help sensing more than a little deja vu in his account of the manifest evils of slavery.
– Geoff Andrew,
Time Out,
9 Feb 2006
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