Vukani (Awake)

  • Vukani (Réveillez-vous)
Genre : Political
Type : Documentary
Original title :
Principal country concerned : Column : Cinema/tv
Year of production : 1962
Format : Short
Running time : 17 (in minutes)

Ngakane's first film was this short anti-apartheid documentary, which was, in his own words, "the first film about the political situation in South Africa made from an African's point of view."

Dir: Lionel Ngakane

1962, 17 minutes, Documentary

"His first film, a documentary titled VUKANI/AWAKE (1962), deals with man's inhumanity to man, depicting the evils of apartheid and the predicament of black people in South Africa."
- Nwachukwu Frank Ukadike, QUESTIONING AFRICAN CINEMA

2011 - Anthology Film Archives (New York) - April 2011
* This screening is part of: UNITED WE STAND: SOUTH AFRICAN CINEMA DURING APARTHEID
Réal : Lionel Ngakane

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