Voyage au Congo
Cinema has long fed our fascination with other cultures, and appears to be just one facet of what is a fundamentally visual fascination. One of the most elaborate manifestations of this was the 1931 Exposition Coloniale Internationale, held in Paris to celebrate ‘la France des 5 continents’. This exhibition sought to represent to the people of France their colonial world by reordering and reconstructing it into scenes or tableaux of everyday indigenous life. This entailed shipping over scores of indigènes and forcing them to act out the gestures of their ‘everyday lives’ under the eyes of 1930’s Parisian society. A slightly less elaborate, although equally controversial at the time, visual representation of The Other was one of the first film documentaries to be made which sought to represent the lives of a colonised people, Marc Allégret’s Voyage au Congo.
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FranceFR
- Theatrical1 Jan 1927
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- When was Voyage au Congo released?
- Voyage au Congo was released on 1 January 1927.
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- What is the rating of Voyage au Congo?
- Voyage au Congo holds a 6.8/10 audience score from 4 votes.
- Who directed Voyage au Congo?
- Voyage au Congo (1927) was directed by Marc Allégret.
- How long is Voyage au Congo?
- Voyage au Congo runs for 1h 40m.
