1959 · drama · apartheid · documentary
Come Back, Africa
Directed by Lionel Rogosin1h 35m1959
Come Back, Africa chronicles the life of Zachariah, a black South African living under the rule of the harsh apartheid government in 1959.
Our read: Come Back, Africa (1959) reads as a heavy, steady, grounded drama · apartheid · documentary entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, steady, measured drama / apartheid, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, measured.
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